Microcirculatory vasoconstrictor response: relationship with vital capacity and smoking

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Videomorphometric Analysis of Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction of Intra-pulmonary Arteries Using Murine Precision Cut Lung Slices
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Videomorphometric Analysis of Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction of Intra-pulmonary Arteries Using Murine Precision Cut Lung Slices

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C F Liu1, L C See, Y T Lau

  • 1National Taipei College of Nursing, Taiwan, Republic of China.

Life Sciences
|January 1, 1996
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