Effects of -hydroxylase product on distal human pulmonary arteries
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Caroline Morin, Christelle Guibert, Marco Sirois, Vincent Echave, Marcio M. Gomes, and Eric Rousseau Le Bilarium, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Service of Thoracic Surgery, and Department of Pathology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebéc, Canada; and Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Respiratoire, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U885, Université Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France
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