Molecular mechanisms

Seminars in Nephrology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 504-523

  Hebert, Steven C ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; BUMETANIDE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; DIURETIC AGENT; ETACRYNIC ACID; FUROSEMIDE; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; SODIUM CHANNEL; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT; TORASEMIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BARTTER SYNDROME; DIURETIC THERAPY; DRUG MECHANISM; GENE MUTATION; GENETICS; GITELMAN SYNDROME; HENLE LOOP; HUMAN; ION TRANSPORT; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY DISTAL TUBULE; MODEL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SODIUM ABSORPTION; SODIUM EXCRETION; SODIUM TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; BENZOTHIADIAZINES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DIURETICS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TUBULES, DISTAL; KIDNEY TUBULES, PROXIMAL; MICE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NA(+)-K(+)-EXCHANGING ATPASE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RABBITS; RATS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE SYMPORTER INHIBITORS;

EID: 0032729919     PISSN: 02709295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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