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Functional BSND variants in essential hypertension.
American journal of hypertension - 1 Nov 2007
Sile Saba, Gillani Niloufar B, Velez Digna R, Vanoye Carlos G, Yu Chang, Byrne Loretta M, Gainer James V, Brown Nancy J, Williams Scott M, George Alfred L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Defects in the handling of renal salt reabsorption may contribute to interindividual differences in blood-pressure regulation and susceptibility to hypertension. Sodium chloride reabsorption in the thick ascending limb (TAL) is dependent in part on the chloride channel, ClC-Kb (encoded by CLCNKB), and its accessory subunit, barttin (encoded by BSND). METHODS: We investigated genetic variations in BSND...
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