Constitutive nitric oxide synthase gene expression in Bartter's and Gitelman's syndrome and its relationship to their vascular hyporesponsiveness

Contributions to Nephrology

Volumn 122, Issue , 1997, Pages 193-195

  Calo L ^a,b   Bordin, M C ^a   Davis, P A ^c   Cantaro, S ^a   Milani, M ^a   Gandolfi, L ^a   Favaro, S ^a   Antonello, A ^a   Fagiolo, U ^b   D'Angelo, A ^a  

^a Institute of Internal Medicine   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BARTTER SYNDROME; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; METABOLISM; MONOCYTE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

BARTTER SYNDROME; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MONOCYTES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 17644442629     PISSN: 03025144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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