Impairment of skin microvascular reactivity in hypertension and uraemia

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1821-1827

  Farkas, Katalin ^a   Nemcsik, János ^a   Kolossváry, Endre ^a   Járai, Zoltán ^b   Nádory, Éva ^c   Farsang, Csaba ^b   Kiss, István ^a,c  

^a Szent Imre Hospital   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c EuroCare Dialysis Center   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Chronic renal failure; Endothelium; Essential hypertension; Laser Doppler flowmetry; Skin microcirculation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BIG ENDOTHELIN 1; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; ENDOTHELIN 1; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; UREMIA; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION;

ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; DIURETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; SKIN; UREMIA; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 24044454691     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh944     Document Type: Article

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