Experimental and transgenic models of pulmonary hypertension

Comprehensive Physiology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 769-782

  West, James ^a   Hemnes, Anna ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, GENETIC; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANIMALIA; STACHYBOTRYS;

EID: 84861839153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20404603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c100003     Document Type: Article

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