Vascular, hemodynamic and renal effects of low-dose losartan in rats with secondary biliary cirrhosis.

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Published in Liver Int on June 01, 2005

Authors

Jörg Heller1, Jonel Trebicka, Thomas Shiozawa, Michael Schepke, Markus Neef, Martin Hennenberg, Tilman Sauerbruch

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. jheller@uni-bonn.de

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