The identification of phosducin as a novel candidate gene for hypertension and its role in sympathetic activation

Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 118-124

  Broeckel, Ulrich ^a   Stoll, Monika ^b   Hein, Lutz ^c  

^a Children's Hospital of Wisconsin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

genetics; hypertension; phosducin; sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; HEXAMETHONIUM; ISOFLURANE; PHOSDUCIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GANGLION; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART RATE; HEREDITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PINEAL BODY; PINEALOCYTE; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETINA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRESS; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELEMETRY; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; EYE PROTEINS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN REGULATORS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 79952040382     PISSN: 10624821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNH.0b013e3283432e05     Document Type: Article

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