Article
[Genetically engineered mice for study of human hypertension].
Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine - 1 Aug 1997
Sugiyama F, Taniguchi K, Fukamizu A, Yagami K
Abstract excerpt
Human essential hypertension is generally recognized as a multifactorial disease based on genetic diathesis. Despite the usefulness of SHR and Dahl rats as laboratory tools, the genetic diathesis including the development of hypertension in these rats remains unclear. Rapid advances in embryonic...
Topics
- Animals
- Atrial Natriuretic Factor
- Disease Models, Animal
- Humans
- Hypertension
- Kallikrein-Kinin System
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Mutation
- Nitric Oxide Synthase
- Rats
- Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha-2
- Renin-Angiotensin System
- Sodium-Hydrogen Exchangers
