The molecular basis of blood pressure variation

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 387-399

  Toka, Hakan R ^a   Koshy, Jacob M ^a   Hariri, Ali ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bartter's syndrome; Essential hypertension; Gitelman's syndrome; Liddle's syndrome; Pheochromocytoma; Pseudohypoaldosteronism

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; MINERALOCORTICOID;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ALLELE; APPARENT MINERALOCORTICOID EXCESS SYNDROME; BARTTER SYNDROME; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHYDACTYLY; CHROMOSOME 8Q; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GITELMAN SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERALDOSTERONISM; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; LIDDLE SYNDROME; PHENOTYPE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOHYPOALDOSTERONISM; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; SALT WASTING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM ABSORPTION; ZONA FASCICULATA;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY; PHENOTYPE; PROGNOSIS; RENAL TUBULAR TRANSPORT, INBORN ERRORS;

EID: 84876280954     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: 1432198X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-012-2206-9     Document Type: Review

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