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Expression of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) in the endometrium - Implications for fertility in a patient with pseudohypoaldosteronism.
The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology - 1 Oct 2018
Boggula Vijay R, Hanukoglu Israel, Sagiv Ron, Enuka Yehoshua, Hanukoglu Aaron
Abstract excerpt
Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1 (PHA) is a syndrome of unresponsiveness to aldosterone. The severe form of this disease results from mutations in the genes that encode for the epithelial sodium channel subunits, SCNN1A, SCNN1B, and SCNN1G. A PHA patient under our care failed to conceive after many years and IVF trials. Our earlier studies had shown that ENaC is expressed in the female reproductive tract. We...
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