Upregulation of renal and vascular nitric oxide synthase in young spontaneously hypertensive rats

Hypertension

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1248-1254

  Vaziri, Nosratola D ^a,b   Ni, Zhenmin ^a   Oveisi, Fariba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelium derived relaxing factor; Kidney; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; URINARY EXCRETION; VASCULAR DISEASE;

EID: 0031840214     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.31.6.1248     Document Type: Article

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