Additive renoprotective effect of candesartan and tetrahydrobiopterin in rats after 5/6 nephrectomy

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1864-1872

  Podjarny, Eduardo ^a   Bernheim, Joelle ^a,c   Hasdan, Galit ^a   Karsh, Dorit ^b   Rashid, Gloria ^a   Green, Janice ^a   Katz, Bernardo ^a   Bernheim, Jacques ^a  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Angiotensin receptor antagonist; Hypertension; Nitric oxide; Proteinuria; Renal failure; Tetrahydrobiopterin

Indexed keywords

CANDESARTAN HEXETIL; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG POTENTIATION; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY MASS; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; NEPHRECTOMY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; PROTEINURIA; RAT; RENAL PROTECTION; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ANGIOTENSIN II TYPE 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKERS; ANIMALS; BENZIMIDAZOLES; BIOPTERIN; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CYTOPROTECTION; DRUG SYNERGISM; KIDNEY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLE; TETRAZOLES;

EID: 34547830283     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm129     Document Type: Article

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