Alcohol
Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 149-159 , June 2000

Diminished cardiac contractile response to tetrahydropapaveroline in hypertension: role of β-adrenoceptors and intracellular Ca2+

  • Jun Ren

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    • Present address: Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Therapeutics, University of North Dakota School of Medicine, Grand Forks, ND 58203, USA.
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  • Bradley W Smude
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  • Michelle L Pavlik
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  • Ricardo A Brown

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-313-577-4918; fax: +1-313-577-5494

Received 18 November 1999 ,Revised 27 January 2000 ,Accepted 31 January 2000.

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