Inactivation of extrahepatic vascular Akt improves systemic hemodynamics and sodium excretion in cirrhotic rats

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1041-1048

  Fernandez Varo G ^a   Melgar Lesmes, P ^a   Casals, G ^a   Pauta, M ^a   Arroyo, V ^a   Morales Ruiz, M ^a   Ros, J ^a   Jimenez W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

AA Akt adenoviruses; Arterial vasodilation; Ascites; Cirrhosis; Endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS); Nitric oxide (NO); Renal function; Serine threonine kinase Akt; Systemic hemodynamics

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTEIN KINASE B; SODIUM;

ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM EXCRETION; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; THORACIC AORTA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENE; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; ASCITES; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; HEK293 CELLS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; MUTANT PROTEINS; NATRIURESIS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 78049458666     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2010.05.031     Document Type: Article

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