Gender and the Renal Nitric Oxide Synthase System in Healthy Humans | Zendy

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Gender and the Renal Nitric Oxide Synthase System in Healthy Humans

Author(s) -

Sofia B. Ahmed,

Naomi D.L. Fisher,

Norman K. Hollenberg

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

clinical journal of the american society of nephrology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755

H-Index - 151

eISSN - 1555-905X

pISSN - 1555-9041

DOI - 10.2215/cjn.00110107

Subject(s) - nitric oxide , medicine , renal blood flow , nitric oxide synthase , kidney , endocrinology , blood pressure , hemodynamics , disease , physiology , cardiology

It is widely known that men with kidney disease progress to ESRD at a much greater rate than do women. The mechanism for these gender differences is not clear, but reduced availability of nitric oxide is thought to contribute to the age-related decline in renal plasma flow observed in both healthy men and women. Animal models suggest that the renal vasculature of men may be significantly more dependent on nitric oxide than that of women.

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