Glomerular arginine transport is attenuated in chronic renal failure in rats

Journal of Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 1-6, 2003, Pages 113-120

  Schwartz, Doron ^a   Ozery, Yonatan ^a   Schwartz, Idit F ^a   Wollman, Yoram ^a   Chernichovsky, Tamara ^a   Blum, Miriam ^a   Iaina, Adrian ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Beneficial effect of arginine supplementation; Chronic renal failure; Glomeruli; L Arginine uptake; Nephrectomy

Indexed keywords

ARGININE;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; NEPHRECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PROTEINURIA; RAT; RENAL PROTECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNINEPHRECTOMY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; MALE; METABOLISM; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 34548718161     PISSN: 00257850     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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