Commentary Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/nephrology.2.010
Evaluation of the pathophysiological mechanisms of salt sensitivity
Conghui Wang1, Tastuo Shimosawa2,3,*
- 1Department of Nephrology, Chinese PLA Institute of Nephrology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Chinese PLA Medical School, Beijing, China
- 2Department of Clinical Laboratory, International University of Health and Welfare, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- 3CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan
Corresponding Author
Tastuo Shimosawa, tshimo-tky@umin.ac.jp
Received Date: February 02, 2021
Accepted Date: May 14, 2021
Wang C, Shimosawa T. Evaluation of the pathophysiological mechanisms of salt sensitivity. J Exp Nephrol. 2021; 2(1):21-24.
Copyright: © 2021 Wang C, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords
Salt sensitivity, Vascular dysfunction, Volume expansion, COVID-19
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