RL Woods - Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and …, 2004 - pt.wkhealth.com 1. If one was to design a hormone to protect the heart, it would have a number of features shown
by the cardiac natriuretic peptides atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and B-type natriuretic peptide
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SL Bar, E Swiggum, L Straatman, A … - The Canadian journal …, 2006 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov One-half of a century has been spent debating the etiology of depressed myocardial function
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