Regional blood flow in Dahl-Iwai salt-sensitive rats and the effects of dietary L-arginine supplementation

American Journal of Physiology

Volumn 272, Issue 4 PART 2, 1997, Pages

  Tomohiro, Atsufumi ^a,b   Kimura, Shoji ^a   Hong, H E ^a   Fujisawa, Yoshihide ^a   Nishiyama, Akira ^a   Kiyomoto, Kayo ^a   Aki, Yasuharu ^a   Tamaki, Toshiaki ^a   Abe, Youichi ^a  

^a Department of Pharmacology ^*  (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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