Increased endothelin expression in a rat cardiac allograft model of chronic vascular rejection

Transplantation

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 791-797

  Forbes, R D Clarke ^a   Cernacek, Peter ^a   Zheng, Shu Xun ^a   Gomersall, Margaret ^a   Guttmann, Ronald D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ENDOTHELINS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0030004987     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199603150-00020     Document Type: Article

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