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Clinical and Experimental Hypertension. Part A: Theory and Practice Volume 6, 1984 - Issue 8
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Original Article

Melatonin in Serum and the Pineal of Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

Koichiro Kawashima Department of Pharmacology, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi-ken, 329-04, Japan
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Akihito Nagakura Department of Pharmacology, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi-ken, 329-04, Japan
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Robert J. Wurzburger Department of Pharmacology, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi-ken, 329-04, Japan; Department of Physiological Chemistry and Pharmacology, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, New Jersey, 07110, USA
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Sydney Spector Department of Pharmacology, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi-ken, 329-04, Japan; Department of Physiological Chemistry and Pharmacology, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, New Jersey, 07110, USA
Pages 1517-1528 | Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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