Relationship among levels of leptin and zinc, copper, and zinc/copper ratio in plasma of patients with essential hypertension and healthy normotensive subjects

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 117-123

  Canatan, Halit ^a,b   Bakan, Ibrahim ^a   Akbulut, Mehmet ^a   Halifeoglu, Ihsan ^a   Cikim, Gurkan ^a   Baydas, Giyasettin ^a   Kilic, Nermin ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Copper; Hypertension; Leptin; Zinc

Indexed keywords

COPPER; LEPTIN; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; COPPER; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LEPTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TIME FACTORS; ZINC;

EID: 4444335630     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/BTER:100:2:117     Document Type: Article

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