Losartan reduces sympathetic nerve outflow from the brain of rats with chronic renal failure
Sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity, measured by norepinephrine (NE) turnover rate, was greater in the posterior hypothalamic (PH) nuclei, the paraventricular nuclei (PVN), and the locus coeruleus (LC) of 5/6 nephrectomised (CRF) rats than of control rats. NE secretion from the PH was also gre...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi - SAGE Publishing
2000-06-01
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Series: | Journal of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3317/jraas.2000.026 |