Tetrahydrobiopterin ameliorates the exaggerated exercise pressor response in patients with chronic kidney disease: A randomized controlled trial

American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology

Volumn 310, Issue 10, 2016, Pages F1016-F1025

  Lin, Ann M ^a,b   Liao, Peizhou ^c   Millson, Erin C ^a   Quyyumi, Arshed A ^a   Park, Jeanie ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise pressor reflex; Handgrip exercise; Sympathetic nerve activity

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; BIOPTERIN; SAPROPTERIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSED BLOOD PRESSURE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXERCISE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY PERFUSION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; NAUSEA; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PARALLEL DESIGN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATIC EXERCISE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASODILATATION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DRUG EFFECTS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOPTERIN; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84984649591     PISSN: 1931857X     EISSN: 15221466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00527.2015     Document Type: Article

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