Renal excretory responses to saline load in the taurine-depleted and the taurine-supplemented rat

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 619-624

  Mozaffari, Mahmood S ^a   Azuma, Junichi ^a   Patel, Champa ^a,b   Schaffer, Stephen W ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

alanine; Diuretic; Natriuretic; Renal; Taurine

Indexed keywords

BETA ALANINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TAURINE;

AMINO ACID DEFICIENCY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIURESIS; ELECTROLYTE EXCRETION; MALE; NATRIURESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SALT LOADING; SODIUM EXCRETION; URINARY EXCRETION;

ANIMALS; BETA-ALANINE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DIURESIS; HEART RATE; KIDNEY; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TAURINE;

EID: 0030821931     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-2952(97)00213-X     Document Type: Article

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