Vascular Actions of Relaxin: Nitric Oxide and Beyond

Overview

Journal Br J Pharmacol

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 2016 Sep 4

PMID 27590257

Citations 42

Authors

C H Leo

M Jelinic

H H Ng

S A Marshall

J Novak

M Tare

K P Conrad

L J Parry

Affiliations

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Abstract

Linked Articles: This article is part of a themed section on Recent Progress in the Understanding of Relaxin Family Peptides and their Receptors. To view the other articles in this section visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.v174.10/issuetoc.

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