Effects of renal perfusion pressure on renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure and Na+ excretion: Role of endothelium-derived nitric oxide

Nephron

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 104-111

  Nakamura, Tetsuya ^a   Alberola, Antonio M ^b   Salazar, F Javier ^b   Saito, Yuichiro ^a   Kurashina, Toshiaki ^a   Granger, Joey P ^b   Nagai, Ryozo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Glomerular filtration rate; Nitric oxide; Pressure natriuresis relationship; Renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; LITHIUM ION; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; SODIUM ION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOTHELIUM; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY PERFUSION; KIDNEY PLASMA FLOW; MALE; NATRIURESIS; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RENAL ARTERY; SODIUM EXCRETION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TUBULES, PROXIMAL; LITHIUM; MALE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RENAL CIRCULATION; SODIUM;

EID: 0031983635     PISSN: 00282766     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000044889     Document Type: Article

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