Racial and gender differences in endothelin-1

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 486-488

  Evans, Robert R ^a   Phillips, Bradley G ^a   Singh, Govind ^a   Bauman, Jerry L ^a   Gulati, Anil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030586958     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00344-X     Document Type: Article

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