Endothelin-1 modulates intrahepatic resi
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Patrick S. Kamath; Gertrude M. Tyce; Virginia M. Miller; Brooks S. Edwards; Duan
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Factors that increase resistance to blood flow through the hepatic sinusoids when portal hypertension occurs in the absence of significant hepatic fibrosis are not completely understood. Experiments were designed to test the hypothesis that endothelin-1 (ET-1) is one of the humoral factors that incr