Ghrelin Administration Increases the Bax/Bcl-2 Gene Expression Ratio in the Heart of Chronic Hypoxic Rats

Mohammad Reza Aliparasti ¹, Mohammad Reza Alipour ¹, Shohreh Almasi ², Hadi Feizi ³ *

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