Urotensine II et somatostatine: Les retrouvailles de deux vieilles cousines

Medecine/Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 476-478

  Tostivint, Hervé ^a   Lihrmann, Isabelle ^a   Vaudry, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOMATOSTATIN; UROTENSIN; UROTENSIN II;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; HUMAN;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; SOMATOSTATIN; UROTENSINS;

EID: 33750934377     PISSN: 07670974     EISSN: 19585381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/medsci/2006225476     Document Type: Article

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