Mineralocorticoids, salt and high blood pressure.

doi:10.1016/0039-128x(96)00010-4

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Mineralocorticoids, salt and high blood pressure.

Steroids - 1 Apr 1996

Gómez-Sánchez E P, Zhou M, Gomez-Sanchez C E

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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...

Topics

Adrenal Cortex Hormones
Adrenal Glands
Animals
Blood Pressure
Dogs
Humans
Hypertension
Mineralocorticoids
Mutation
Rats
Rats, Inbred Strains
Regeneration
Salts
Steroid 11-beta-Hydroxylase

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