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Endothelin-1 causes accumulation of leukocytes in the pulmonary circulation

E Helset1, K Ytrehus, T Tveita

  • 1Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Tromsø, Norway.

Circulatory Shock
|December 1, 1994
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