Leptin as a common link to obesity and hypertension

Drugs of Today

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 687-695

  Mukherjee, Ratnakar ^a   Villarreal, Daniel ^a   Reams, Garry P ^b   Freeman, Ronald H ^b   Tchoukina, Inna ^a   Spear, Robert M ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; SODIUM;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; DRUG INFUSION; FLUID BALANCE; HEMODYNAMICS; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPERLEPTINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NATRIURESIS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTOR GENE; REVIEW; SODIUM BALANCE; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ADIPOCYTES; ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LEPTIN; OBESITY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE;

EID: 30444461228     PISSN: 16993993     EISSN: 16994019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/dot.2005.41.10.899612     Document Type: Review

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