Aldosterone is synthesized in and activates bulbospinal neurons through mineralocorticoid receptors and ENaCs in the RVLM

Hypertension Research

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 504-512

  Oshima, Naoki ^a   Onimaru, Hiroshi ^b   Takechi, Hanako ^a   Yamamoto, Kojiro ^a   Watanabe, Atsushi ^a   Uchida, Takahiro ^a   Nishida, Yasuhiro ^a   Oda, Takashi ^a   Kumagai, Hiroo ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

aldosterone; benzamil; FAD286; RVLM neurons; whole cell patch clamp

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; BULBOSPINAL NEURON; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPERTENSION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; RAT; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL;

ALDOSTERONE; AMILORIDE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; CALCIUM; DIURETICS; EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNELS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FADROZOLE; MAGNESIUM; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; SPINAL CORD; SPIRONOLACTONE; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84878931326     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2012.224     Document Type: Article

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