Renin, (pro)renin and receptor: An update

Clinical Science

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 169-178

  Nguyen, Genevieve ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

(pro)renin receptor (PRP); Cardiovascular disease; Renal pathology; Wnt catenin signalling; Wnt planar cell polarity signalling

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR; BETA CATENIN; COLLAGEN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FIBRONECTIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; I KAPPA B; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 6; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 5; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 1; PRORENIN; PRORENIN RECEPTOR; RAS PROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; RENIN; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA ACTIVATED KINASE 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNINDEXED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ADULT; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POLARITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOSOME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RENIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VACUOLAR PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 79251621720     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/CS20100432     Document Type: Review

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