Renal endothelin-converting enzyme in rats with congestive heart failure

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages

  Abassi, Zaid ^a,b   Winaver, Joseph ^b   Rubinstein, Irith ^b   Shimada, Kohei ^c   Takahashi, Masaaki ^c   Tanzawa, Kazuhiko ^c   Hoffman, Aaron ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Endothelin; Endothelin converting enzyme; Renal cortex

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; ENDOTHELIN CONVERTING ENZYME; ENDOTHELIN-CONVERTING ENZYME 1; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOPROTEINASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ENZYMOLOGY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY MEDULLA; MALE; METABOLISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY MEDULLA; MALE; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0031616832     PISSN: 01602446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005344-199800001-00011     Document Type: Article

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