Nucleotide variations in intron 1 of the renin gene of the spontaneously hypertensive rat

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-40

  Di Nicolantonio, Robert ^a   Lan, Ling ^a   Wilks, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Angiotensin; E2A; Gene; HLH proteins; Hypertension; Intron; PPAR; Renin; Spontaneously hypertensive rat; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; RENIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; RAT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

EID: 0031933185     PISSN: 10641963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10641969809053204     Document Type: Article

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