Mutation of low affinity nerve growth factor receptor gene is associated with the hypertensive phenotype in spontaneously hypertensive inbred rat strains

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-72

  Nemoto, Kiyomitsu ^a   Kageyama, Haruaki ^a   Ueyama, Takashi ^b   Fukamachi, Katsumi ^a   Sekimoto, Masashi ^a   Tomita, Isao ^a   Senba, Emiko ^b   Forehand, Cynthia J ^c   Hendley, Edith D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^b WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral hyperactivity; Hypertension; Low affinity nerve growth factor receptor; Nerve growth factor; Nucleotide sequence; Point mutation; Spontaneously hypertensive rat

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030013923     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12664-1     Document Type: Article

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