Determination of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) activity in healthy Iranian population: Relationship to paraclinical parameters and cigarette smoking

Research Communications in Alcohol and Substances of Abuse

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 99-109

  Ziai, Seyed Ali ^a   Sadeghian, Tanaz ^a   Soltani Arabshahy, Seyed Kamran ^a   Mahmoudian, Massoud ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

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DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IRAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN;

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