Increased cardiac ppENK mRNA in cardiac hypertrophy and effects on blood pressure of its peptide products

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 272, Issue 6 41-6, 1997, Pages

  Hao, Jing Ming ^a   Rabkin, Simon W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Enkephalins and blood pressure; Enkephalins and cardiac contractility

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE ENKEPHALIN; MESSENGER RNA; METENKEPHALIN; METENKEPHALIN[6 ARGININE 7 GLYCINE 8 LEUCINE]; METENKEPHALIN[6 ARGININE 7 PHENYLALANINE]; PEPTIDE; PREPROENKEPHALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART RATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 1042297279     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1997.272.6.h2885     Document Type: Article

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