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Kidney failure, arterial hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy in rats with loss of function mutation of SOD3.
Free radical biology & medicine - 20 May 2020
Guo Haipeng, Xu Dachun, Kuroki Marcos, Lu Zhongbing, Xu Xin, Geurts Aron, Osborn John W, Chen Yingjie
Abstract excerpt
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) poses a considerable medical and public health challenge, and the Dahl/Salt Sensitive (Dahl/SS) strain is often used for CKD study. Extracellular superoxide dismutase (SOD3) is important for removing extracellular superoxide anions and is highly expressed in renal tissue. Using a novel rat strain with loss-of-function mutation of SOD3 created by replacing glutamate 124 of SOD3 with...
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