High potassium diets reduce endothelial permeability in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 241-245

  Ishimitsu, Toshihiko ^a,b   Tobian, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

albumin; endothelium; hypertension; potassium

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM INTAKE; RAT; STROKE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 0029931523     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1996.tb02603.x     Document Type: Article

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