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    Correlation of Acute Prostacyclin Response in Primary (Unexplained) Pulmonary Hypertension with Efficacy of Treatment with Calcium Channel Blockers and Survival

    Unexplained, or primary, pulmonary hypertension, is usually a rapidly fatal disease, in which the use of vasodilator therapy is controversial (14, 22, 25). While some authors have proposed that there may be a ...

    Bertron M. Groves, David B. Badesch in Ion Flux in Pulmonary Vascular Control (1993)

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    Biosynthesis and Endocytosis of Yolk Proteins in the Mosquito

    The maturation of insect eggs requires the fat body production of large amounts of a protein, vitellogenin (Vg), that is secreted into the hemolymph, selectively accumulated by the oocytes and stored in yolk b...

    Alexander S. Raikhel, Tarlochan S. Dhadialla, Wen-Long Cho in Molecular Insect Science (1990)

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    Absorption and Optical Rotation Spectra of Biological Membranes

    The combination of ultraviolet absorption and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopies provides a sensitive technique for following protein conformation and conformational changes in solution. It is reasonable t...

    Marianna M. Long, Dan W. Urry in Physiology of Membrane Disorders (1986)