The (F)low down on the endothelial epithelial sodium channel epithelial sodium channel as a brake on flow-mediated vasodilation

Hypertension

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 903-904

  Drummond, Heather A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID SENSING ION CHANNEL; AMILORIDE; BENZAMIL; EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL; NITRIC OXIDE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE PROTEIN; SODIUM PROTON EXCHANGE PROTEIN;

BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; DEPOLARIZATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EDITORIAL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; LAMINAR FLOW; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MESENTERIC ARTERY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; WATER ABSORPTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INNERVATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; METABOLISM; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MECHANORECEPTORS; NITRIC OXIDE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATION;

EID: 67049171317     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.128868     Document Type: Editorial

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