Effect of taurine on angiotensin II-induced hypertrophy of neonatal rat cardiac cells

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 725-730

  Takahashi, Kyoko ^a   Azuma, Mitsuhiro ^a   Taira, Koki ^a   Baba, Akemichi ^a   Yamamoto, Isamu ^a   Schaffer, Stephen W ^b   Azuma, Junichi ^a,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

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

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiotensin II; Immediate early response gene; Intracellular free calcium; Mitogenesis; Protein and DNA synthesis; Taurine

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; CALCIUM ION; TAURINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART CELL CULTURE; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HYPERTROPHY; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MITOGENICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; ONCOGENE C JUN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT;

ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HEART; HYPERPLASIA; HYPERTROPHY; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TAURINE;

EID: 0031406111     PISSN: 01602446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005344-199712000-00004     Document Type: Article

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