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Contraction of small mesenteric arteries induced by micromolar concentrations of ATP released from caged ATP

N Sjöblom-Widfeldt1, A Arner, H Nilsson

  • 1Department of Physiology, University of Göteborg, Sweden.

Journal of Vascular Research
|January 1, 1993
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