Salt-sensitive hypertension: If only it were as simple as rocket science

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1115-1116

  Reudelhuber, Timothy L ^a  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERMEDIN; NATRIURETIC FACTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BARTTER SYNDROME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DIET; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GITELMAN SYNDROME; HEREDITY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPHYSIS; LIDDLE SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SODIUM BALANCE;

ANIMALS; GAMMA-MSH; HYPERTENSION; MICE; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 0037398260     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI200318397     Document Type: Note

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