Who and where is the renal baroreceptor?: The connexin hypothesis

Kidney International

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 460-462

  Gomez, R Ariel ^a   Sequeira Lopez, Maria Luisa S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 45; RENIN;

ENZYME RELEASE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERRENINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; JUXTAGLOMERULAR APPARATUS; JUXTAGLOMERULAR CELL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

EID: 60749107460     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2008.536     Document Type: Note

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