Mineralocorticoid receptor activation in obesity hypertension

Hypertension Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 649-657

  Nagase, Miki ^a   Fujita, Toshiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; ALDOSTERONE; AMLODIPINE; ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENALAPRIL; EPLERENONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MINERALOCORTICOID ANTAGONIST; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 1; RAC1 PROTEIN; RELEASING FACTOR; SERUM AND GLUCOCORTICOID REGULATED KINASE 1; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ALDOSTERONE URINE LEVEL; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG EFFICACY; GENE ACTIVATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HIGH SODIUM INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPERALDOSTERONISM; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PODOCYTE; PROTEINURIA; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; REVIEW; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ALDOSTERONE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIGANDS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; PROTEINURIA; RATS; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM; SODIUM, DIETARY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 68349094014     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2009.86     Document Type: Review

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