Reduced Sensitivity of the Renal Circulation to Angiotensin II in Pregnant Rats

Hypertension

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 580-584

  Novak, Jacqueline ^a   Reckelhoff, Jane ^a   Bumgarner, Leslie ^a   Cockrell, Kathy ^a   Kassab, Salah ^a   Granger, Joey P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; CAPTOPRIL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY CIRCULATION; KIDNEY PLASMA FLOW; MICTURITION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RENAL CIRCULATION;

EID: 0030791844     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.30.3.580     Document Type: Article

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