Sex hormones and renal nitric oxide synthases

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1240-1246

  Neugarten, Joel ^a,b   Ding, Qing ^a   Friedman, Alan ^a   Lei, Jun ^a   Silbiger, Sharon ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KIDNEY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030831753     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1681/asn.v881240     Document Type: Article

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