Decreased expression of catechol-O-methyltransferase in the renal cortex of malignant spontaneously hypertensive rats

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 219, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 331-336

  Ooshima, Kana ^a   Ozaki, Shingen ^a   Tabuchi, Masaki ^a   Higashino, Hideaki ^a   Honda, Eiko ^a   Park, Ah Mee ^a   Arima, Shuji ^a   Munakata, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

COMT; Hypertension; Malignant stroke prone spontaneously hypertensive rat; Proteome; Stroke prone spontaneously hypertensive rat

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY TUBULE CELL; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEOMICS; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY CORTEX; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 73849149524     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.219.331     Document Type: Article

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