The endocrine heart and natriuretic peptides: Histochemistry, cell biology, and functional aspects of the renal urodilatin system

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 335-357

  Forssmann, Wolf Georg ^a   Richter, Rudolf ^a   Meyer, Markus ^a  

^a Niedersachsisches Inst F P   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CARDIODILATIN; NATRIURETIC FACTOR; URODILATIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ASTHMA; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIURESIS; DRUG STRUCTURE; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEART FAILURE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NATRIURESIS; NEUROSECRETION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; CLINICAL TRIALS; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HEART ATRIA; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCARDIUM; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECEPTORS, ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR;

EID: 0031751053     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004180050295     Document Type: Review

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