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Sodium-lithium countertransport activity is linked to chromosome 5 in baboons.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Feb 2001
Kammerer C M, Cox L A, Mahaney M C, Rogers J, Shade R E
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The genes involved in the regulation of cellular sodium transport characteristics, which are correlated with some forms of essential hypertension, have not yet been identified. We are studying the genes and environmental factors that affect red blood cell sodium-lithium countertransport (SLC) activity and intracellular sodium (ICNa) concentration in 634 baboons that comprise 11 pedigrees of 2 and 3 generations...
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