Effects of connexin-mimetic peptides on perfusion pressure in response to phenylephrine in isolated, perfused rat kidneys

Clinical and Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-211

  Piao, Honglan ^a   Sato, Ayako ^a   Nozawa, Yukiko ^a   Sun, Wei ^b   Morioka, Tetsuo ^a   Oite, Takashi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b University of Traditional Chinese Medicine   (China)

Author keywords

Connexin; Gap junction; Phenylephrine; Resistant artery

Indexed keywords

18ALPHA GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; CONNEXIN 37; CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; PHENYLEPHRINE; PROTEIN INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ISOLATED KIDNEY; JUXTAGLOMERULAR CELL; KIDNEY PERFUSION; KIDNEY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ANIMALS; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; MALE; PEPTIDES; PERFUSION; PHENYLEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RENAL CIRCULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 79959207314     PISSN: 13421751     EISSN: 14377799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10157-010-0382-0     Document Type: Article

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