Role of HIF-1 in physiological adaptation of the carotid body during chronic hypoxia.

Adaptation, Physiological Animals Carotid Body/physiopathology Chronic Disease Endothelin-1/genetics,metabolism Gene Expression Regulation Hypoxia/genetics,physiopathology Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit Immunohistochemistry Models, Neurological Nitric Oxide/physiology Nitric Oxide Synthase/genetics,metabolism Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II Rats Rats, Sprague-Dawley Transcription Factors/physiology Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/genetics,metabolism

Endothelin-1 Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit Transcription Factors Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A Nitric Oxide Nitric Oxide Synthase Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II Nos2 protein, rat