How do central mineralocorticoid receptors modulate blood pressure?

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 288, Issue 2 57-2, 2005, Pages

  Funder, John W ^a,b  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; 3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ALDOSTERONE; BENZAMIL; CORTICOSTERONE; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; ISOMERASE; MINERALOCORTICOID ANTAGONIST; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; SODIUM; SPIRONOLACTONE; TRILOSTANE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; METABOLISM; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY HYPERALDOSTERONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM INTAKE; VASOCONSTRICTION; WATER RETENTION;

ALDOSTERONE; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; MINERALOCORTICOIDS; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID;

EID: 12344332478     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00753.2004     Document Type: Editorial

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