Effects of anti-androgen treatment on the catecholamine synthetic pathway in the adrenal medulla of spontaneously hypertensive rats

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 357, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 620-624

  Kumai, Toshio ^a   Tanaka, Masami ^a   Tateishi, Tomonori ^a   Watanabe, Minoru ^a   Nakura, Hironori ^a   Asoh, Masako ^a   Kobayashi, Shinichi ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenal medulla; Antiandrogen; Blood pressure; Catecholamine; SHR inbred; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANTIANDROGEN; CATECHOLAMINE; FLUTAMIDE; MESSENGER RNA; NORADRENALIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ACTINS; ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATECHOLAMINES; EPINEPHRINE; FLUTAMIDE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0031806234     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005216     Document Type: Article

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