Nitric oxide and myocardial function in heart failure: friend or foe?
Open Access
- 1 December 2002
- Vol. 88 (6) , 564-566
- https://doi.org/10.1136/heart.88.6.564
Abstract
There is good evidence that nitric oxide has important autocrine/paracrine effects in the myocardium, serving to optimise and fine tune cardiac functionKeywords
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