Enhanced depressor response to endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene transfer into the nucleus tractus solitarii of spontaneously hypertensive rats

Hypertension Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 325-331

  Hirooka, Yoshitaka ^a   Sakai, Koji ^a   Kishi, Takuya ^a   Ito, Koji ^a   Shimokawa, Hiroaki ^a   Takeshita, Akira ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Brain; Gene transfer; Hypertension; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; ARGININE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSOR RESPONSE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROINJECTION; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELEMETRY; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; WAKEFULNESS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CISTERNA MAGNA; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; NOREPINEPHRINE; OMEGA-N-METHYLARGININE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; TELEMETRY;

EID: 0037986819     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.26.325     Document Type: Article

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