SiRNA-mediated silencing of the diencephalic thyrotropin-releasing hormone precursor gene decreases the arterial blood pressure in the obese agouti mice

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3431-3435

  Landa, Maria Silvina ^a,b   Schuman, Mariano Luis ^a   Burgueno, Adriana ^a   Alvarez, Azucena Laura ^a   Garcia, Silvia Ines ^a,b   Pirola, Carlos Jose ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS ALFREDO LANARI   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Agouti mice; Antisense; Blood pressure; Hypertension; Leptin; Obesity; SiRNA; Thyroliberin; TRH

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI; MUS;

LEPTIN; PROTIRELIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; C57BL MOUSE; DIENCEPHALON; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; OBESITY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIENCEPHALON; GENE SILENCING; LEPTIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OBESITY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 34347258487     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/2324     Document Type: Article

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