Are macrophages the foot soldiers in the war waged by aldosterone against the heart?

Hypertension

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 451-453

  Dorrance, Anne M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL DEATH; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEART; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECT; FIBROSIS; GENETICS; HEART MUSCLE; METABOLISM; MONOCYTE; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SALT INTAKE;

ALDOSTERONE; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DESOXYCORTICOSTERONE; FIBROSIS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONOCYTES; MYOCARDIUM; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 70349248001     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.135855     Document Type: Note

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