Analysis of linkage of the ace locus with measures of cardiac hypertrophy in the spontaneously hypertensive rat

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 23, Issue 6-7, 1996, Pages 597-599

  Zhang, L ^a   Summers, K M ^a   West, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

angiotensin converting enzyme gene; cardiac hypertrophy; cardiac myocyte diameter; genetic hypertension; spontaneously hypertensive rat

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART WEIGHT; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

EID: 0029990739     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1996.tb02791.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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