Reversal or nitroglycerin tolerance by the cGMP phosphodiesterase inhibitor zaprinast.

Eur J Pharmacol

Department of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Sterling Research Group, Rensselaer, NY 12144.

Published: June 1991

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