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Blood Pressure, Sex, and Female Sex Hormones Influence Renal Inner Medullary Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity and Expression in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

BACKGROUND: We previously reported that sexually mature female spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) have greater nitric oxide (NO) synthase (NOS) enzymatic activity in the renal inner medulla (IM), compared to age‐matched males. However, the mechanisms responsible for this sexual dimorphism are un...

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Autores principales: Sasser, Jennifer M., Brinson, Krystal N., Tipton, Ashlee J., Crislip, G. Ryan, Sullivan, Jennifer C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4579936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25862792
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.114.001738