Ocular actions of endothelins

Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-34

  Pang, Iok Hou ^a,b   Yorio, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b ALCON RESEARCH LTD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN DERIVATIVE; ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR;

EYE; HEMODYNAMICS; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; SECOND MESSENGER; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030946006     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/00379727-215-44110     Document Type: Short Survey

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