Angiotensinogen gene-activating elements regulate blood pressure in the brain

Circulation Research

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 257-263

  Nishii, Tadahiko ^a   Moriguchi, Atsushi ^a   Morishita, Ryuichi ^a   Yamada, Kazuo ^a   Nakamura, Shigefumi ^a   Tomita, Naruya ^a   Kaneda, Yasufumi ^a   Fukamizu, Akiyoshi ^b   Mikami, Hiroshi ^a   Higaki, Jitsuo ^a   Ogihara, Toshio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Decoy oligodeoxynucleotide; HVJ liposome method; Renin angiotensin system; Transcriptional cis element

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; ANGIOTENSINOGEN; ANGIOTENSINOGEN GENE ACTIVATING ELEMENT 2 BINDING PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN; BRAIN LATERAL VENTRICLE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RAT; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0033529509     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.85.3.257     Document Type: Article

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