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Mineralocorticoids, salt and high blood pressure.
Steroids - 1 Apr 1996
Gómez-Sánchez E P, Zhou M, Gomez-Sanchez C E
Abstract excerpt
Essential hypertensive patients often respond to treatments mitigating mineralocorticoid action, even though circulating levels of these steroids are within normal ranges. In addition to the kidney, mineralocorticoid or Type I receptors are found in the brain and vascular smooth muscle where they mediate effects associated with several forms of experimental hypertension. Studies in which discrete anatomic or...
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