Field trial of GABA-fortified rice plants and oral administration of milled rice in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Transgenic Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 561-569

  Kowaka, Emi ^a   Shimajiri, Yasuka ^a   Kawakami, Kouhei ^a   Tongu, Miki ^a,b   Akama, Kazuhito ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Shinyamanote Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

GABA; Glutamate decarboxylase; Hypertension; Koshihikari; Transgenic rice

Indexed keywords

JAPONICA; MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID;

ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHEMISTRY; DIET THERAPY; DRUG EFFECTS; FORTIFIED FOOD; GENETICS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORYZA; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HYPERTENSION; MALE; ORYZA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY;

EID: 84929843099     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: 15739368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-014-9859-z     Document Type: Article

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