Japanese family with glucocorticoid-remediable aldosteronism diagnosed by long-polymerase chain reaction

Hypertension Research

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 589-594

  Yokota, K ^a   Ogura, T ^a   Kishida, M ^a   Suzuki, J ^a   Otsuka, F ^a   Mimura, Y ^a   Oishi, T ^a   Hirata, M ^a   Tobe, K ^a   Makino, H ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

11 hydroxylase; Aldosterone synthase; Chimeric gene; CYP11B1; CYP11B2

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ALDOSTERONE SYNTHASE; BOPINDOLOL; CAPTOPRIL; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DNA; FUROSEMIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; RENIN;

ADULT; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHIMERA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN TEST; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERALDOSTERONISM; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; IMAGING; JAPAN; LABORATORY TEST; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; ALDOSTERONE SYNTHASE; CHIMERA; DEXAMETHASONE; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPERALDOSTERONISM; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEROID 11-BETA-HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 0035158362     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.24.589     Document Type: Article

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