Yes, No, maybe So: ENaC proteins as mediators of renal myogenic constriction

Hypertension

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 962-963

  Drummond, Heather A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL; AMILORIDE;

GENE SILENCING; HYDRONEPHROSIS; KIDNEY CIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; VASOCONSTRICTION; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RENAL ARTERY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AMILORIDE; ANIMALS; EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL CIRCULATION; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 70449732617     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.139014     Document Type: Note

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