Salt-sensitive hypertension and reduced fertility in mice lacking the prostaglandin EP2 receptor

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 217-220

  Kennedy, Christopher R J ^a   Zhang, Yahua ^a   Brandon, Suzanne ^a   Guan, Youfei ^a   Coffee, Keith ^a   Funk, Colin D ^a,b   Magnuson, Mark A ^a   Oates, John A ^a   Breyer, Matthew D ^a   Breyer, Richard M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTAGLANDIN E RECEPTOR; PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HYPERTENSION; LITTER SIZE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SALT INTAKE; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, PROSTAGLANDIN E; SODIUM, DIETARY; VASODILATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032906087     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/5583     Document Type: Article

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