Journal of the American Society of Hypertension
Volume 2, Issue 6 , Pages 425-430 , November 2008

Administration of D-alanine-[Ang-(1-7)] (A-779) prior to pregnancy in Sprague Dawley rats produces antidiuresis in late gestation

Received 24 April 2008 ,Accepted 3 May 2008.

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 This work was supported, in part, by Grants from NIH/NHLBI (HL51952) (HL56973), NIH/NICHD (HD42631), Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, and a venture Grant from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. An unrestricted Grant from the Unifi Corporation (Greensboro, NC) and the Farley-Hudson Foundation (Jacksonville, NC) is also acknowledged. Dr. Joyner was supported, in part, by training Grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (GM63485) obtained by the molecular medicine graduate program at Wake Forest University and from the Mid-Atlantic American Heart Association (AHA061547U).

 Conflict of interest: none.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jash.2008.05.002

Journal of the American Society of Hypertension
Volume 2, Issue 6 , Pages 425-430 , November 2008

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