Vascular smooth muscle cell peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ protects against endothelin-1-induced

Noureddine Idris-Khodja1, Sofiane Ouerd, Michelle Trindade

  • 1aHypertension and Vascular Research Unit, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research bDepartment of Medicine, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada cDepartment of Clinical Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil dDepartment of Pharmacology, Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany eLaboratory of Metabolism, Division of Basic Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA *Noureddine Idris-Khodja and Sofiane Ouerd contributed equally to the article.

Journal of Hypertension
|February 25, 2017
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