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Synergistic effect of alpha-adducin and ACE genes causes blood pressure changes with body sodium and volume expansion.
Kidney international - 1 Mar 2000
Barlassina C, Schork N J, Manunta P, Citterio L, Sciarrone M, Lanella G, Bianchi G, Cusi D
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The genetic dissection of a polygenic, multifactorial, quantitative disease such as arterial hypertension is hampered by a large environmental variance and by genetic heterogeneity. METHODS: To reduce the environmental variance, we measured the pressor response to a saline load (PRSL) and the basal plasma renin activity (PRA) under very controlled conditions in 145 essential hypertensive patients, as...
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