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Role of Kinins in the Control of Renal Papillary Blood Flow, Pressure Natriuresis, and Arterial Pressure | Circulation Research - AHA/ASA Journals
Interestingly, the renal medulla is especially rich in NO synthase, 1920 and medullary NO levels are higher than in the cortex. 21 Also, bradykinin has been shown to stimulate endothelial B 2 ...
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Reduced brain-derived neurotrophic factor in prefrontal cortex of patients with schizophrenia | Molecular Psychiatry - Nature
Anatomical and molecular abnormalities of excitatory neurons in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) are found in schizophrenia. We hypothesized that brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF ...
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An automated method to segment the femur for osteoarthritis research - IEEE Xplore
In this paper we develop a fully automated method for the segmentation of the femur in axial MR images and its use in the analysis of imaging biomarkers for osteoarthritis (OA). The proposed method is ...
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Sympathetic nerve-derived ATP regulates renal medullary vasa recta diameter via pericyte cells: a role for regulating medullary blood flow? - Frontiers
Pericytes have been identified on capillaries in many organs of the body, including the kidney. Within the kidney, pericytes are primarily located on descending vasa recta (DVR) capillaries (Park et ...
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SciELO Brasil - alpha-Smooth muscle actin and proliferating cell nuclear antigen expression in focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: functional and structural parameters of renal ...
Figure 3. Immunolocalization of a-smooth muscle actin (a-SM-actin) in the renal cortex from a control individual (A) and from a patient with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (B) using an ...