Role of endothelium-derived nitric oxide in the regulation of blood pressure.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on May 01, 1989

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D D Rees1, R M Palmer, S Moncada

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1: Wellcome Research Laboratories, Beckenham, Kent, United Kingdom.

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