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Aldosteronism: an immunostimulatory state precedes proinflammatory/fibrogenic cardiac phenotype.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology - 1 Aug 2003
Gerling Ivan C, Sun Yao, Ahokas Robert A, Wodi Linus A, Bhattacharya Syamal K, Warrington Kenneth J, Postlethwaite Arnold E, Weber Karl T
Abstract excerpt
Chronic inappropriate (relative to dietary Na+ intake) elevations in circulating aldosterone (ALDO), termed aldosteronism, are associated with remodeling of intramural arteries of the right and left heart. Lesions appear at week 4 of treatment with ALDO and 1% dietary NaCl in uninephrectomized rats (ALDOST) and include invading monocytes, macrophages and lymphocytes with intracellular evidence of oxidative and...
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