Study of Hypertension in Spontaneous Hypertensive Rats by Sequencing the Genomic DNA of Alpha2B Receptors

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 65-70

  Triantafyllidi, Eleni ^a,b   Baldwin, Clinton ^a   Schwartz, Faina ^a   Gavras, Haralambos ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alpha2B adrenergic receptors; Sequencing genomic DNA; SHR rats

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2B ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RECEPTOR GENE; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

EID: 1642340355     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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