Some Asian people believe that opium can protect the cardiovascular system. To assess this belief, we investigated the effect of passive opium smoking (POS) on cardiovascular indices in rabbits with ischemic and non-ischemic hearts

Asgary S

Azimzade-Sarwar B

Davoodi G

Fatemeh Mirzaeipour

Feuerstein G

Fontana F

Hamid Najafipour

Hamid Reza Nasri

Hill-Pryor C

Peacock WF

Peart JN

Pinelli A

Reza Malekpour-Afshar

Sadeghian S

Sadr BSM

Siyavash Joukar

Verde MCM

Wallner C

Yamatsu K

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