Female sex hormones protect against salt-sensitive hypertension but not essential hypertension

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 307, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Brinson, Krystal N ^a   Rafikova, Olga ^a   Sullivan, Jennifer C ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dahl salt sensitive rats; Nitric oxide; Ovariectomy; Spontaneously hypertensive rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HYPERTENSION; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, INBRED DAHL; RATS, INBRED SHR; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 84904297635     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00061.2014     Document Type: Article

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