Asymmetrical dimethylarginine, an endogenous nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, in experimental hypertension

Hypertension

Volumn 29, Issue 1 II, 1997, Pages 242-247

  Matsuoka, Hidehiro ^a   Itoh, Shingo ^b   Kimoto, Masumi ^b   Kohno, Keisuke ^a   Tamai, Osamu ^a   Wada, Yoshifumi ^a   Yasukawa, Hideo ^a   Iwami, Gensho ^a   Okuda, Seiya ^a   Imaizumi, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

blood pressure; Dahl; sodium; spontaneously hypertensive rats

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM EXCRETION; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; URINARY EXCRETION;

EID: 0031019697     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.29.1.242     Document Type: Article

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