Omega-3 fatty acids lower blood pressure by directly activating large-conductance Ca2+-dependent K+ channels

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4816-4821

  Hoshi, Toshinori ^a   Wissuwa, Bianka ^b   Tian, Yutao ^a   Tajima, Nobuyoshi ^a   Xu, Rong ^a   Bauer, Michael ^b   Heinemann, Stefan H ^b   Hou, Shangwei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fish oil; Immunonutrition; KCa1.1; Lipids

Indexed keywords

LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; NUTRACEUTICAL; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL BETA 1 SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIUM BINDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIUM; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ION CHANNEL GATING; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL ALPHA SUBUNITS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; VASODILATION;

EID: 84875276350     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221997110     Document Type: Article

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