Impaired Endothelial Repair Capacity of Early Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Hypertensive Patients With Primary Hyperaldosteronemia: Role of 5,6,7,8-Tetrahydrobiopterin Oxidation and Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Uncoupling - Chen, Long; Ding, Mei-Lin; Wu, Fang; He, Wen; Li, Jin; Zhang, Xiao-Yu; Xie, Wen-Li; Duan, Sheng-Zhong; Xia, Wen-Hao; Tao, Jun (Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. 1979), 2016)
Keywords: Animals; Biopterins - analogs & derivatives; Biopterins - metabolism; Blood Pressure - physiology; Cells, Cultured; Disease Models, Animal; Endothelial Progenitor Cells - metabolism; Endothelial Progenitor Cells - pathology; Endothelium, Vascular - metabolism; Endothelium, Vascular - pathology; Endothelium, Vascular - physiopathology; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Hypercholesterolemia - complications; Hypercholesterolemia - metabolism; Hypercholesterolemia - pathology; Hypertension - complications; Hypertension - metabolism; Hypertension - pathology; Mice; Mice, Nude; Nitric Oxide Synthase - metabolism; Oxidative Stress; Retrospective Studies; Vasodilation; blood pressure; nitric oxide synthase type III; hypertension; oxidative stress; sapropterin