Glucocorticoid-mediated hypertension: Does the vascular smooth muscle hold all the answers?

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1251-1253

  Baum, Michel ^a,b   Moe, Orson W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BRADYKININ; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; KALLIKREIN; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; POTASSIUM; PROSTAGLANDIN; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ABNORMAL URINE COMPOSITION; BICARBONATURIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CUSHING SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY PROXIMAL TUBULE; KIDNEY TUBULE ABSORPTION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NATRIURESIS; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHATURIA; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; POTASSIUM EXCRETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM URINE LEVEL; URINARY EXCRETION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; METABOLISM; NOTE;

ANIMALS; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYPERTENSION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

EID: 48149085319     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: 15333450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2008040410     Document Type: Editorial

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