The Trade-off Between Dietary Salt and Cardiovascular Disease; a role for Na/K-ATPase signaling?

It has been postulated for some time that endogenous digitalis-like substances, also called cardiotonic steroids (CTS), exist, and that these substances are involved in sodium handling. Within the past 20 years, these substances have been unequivocally identified and measurements of circulating and...

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Main Authors: Joe eXie, Anna Pearl Shapiro, Joseph Isaac Shapiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Endocrinology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fendo.2014.00097/full