Clinical effects of phosphodiesterase 3A mutations in inherited hypertension with brachydactyly

Okan Toka1, Jens Tank1, Carolin Schächterle1

  • 1From the Children's' Hospital, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany (O.T.); Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany (J.T., J.J.); Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany (C.S., A.A., P.G.M., E.B.-K., I.H., A.M., Y.W.-N., J.S.-M., E.K., S.B., F.C.L.); Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), a joint co-operation between the Charité Medical Faculty and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany (A.A., P.G.M., E.B.-K., I.H., C.L., K.M., M.B., G.R., A.M., Y.W.-N., W.U., A.T., J.S.-M., S.B., F.C.L.); Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (P.G.M.); Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA (P.G.M.); Department of Cardiology/Nephrology, Helios-Klinikum Berlin, Berlin, Germany (S.E., W.U., A.T., J.S.-M.); Department of Nephrology, Hannover University Medical School, Hannover, Germany (C.L.); Staatliche Technikerschule Berlin, Berlin, Germany (C.L.); Cardiology Section, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, UT (M.A.M.); Departments of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (M.A.M.); Blood Transfusion Center, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Oldenburg, Germany (T.M., A.D., S.G.); Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA (H.R.T.); Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Hampton, VA (H.R.T); German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Berlin, Germany (E.K.); and Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN (F.C.L.).

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