Nephron endowment and blood pressure: What do we really know?

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 133-139

  Kett, Michelle M ^a   Bertram, John F ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; DEXAMETHASONE; GENTAMICIN; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOSE; HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; TOXIN;

BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET RESTRICTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; ETHNOLOGY; FETUS OUTCOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHESIS; INCIDENCE; IRON DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; GENETICS; KIDNEY DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASES; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEPHRONS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 4644319179     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-004-0089-2     Document Type: Review

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