Commentary Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 3 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/immunology.2.024
Trade-off and Cardiotonic Steroid Signaling: Natriuresis Maintains Sodium Balance at The Expense of Cardiac Fibrosis
Steven T. Haller1, Joseph I. Shapiro2,*
- 1University of Toledo, College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Toledo, OH, 43614, USA
- 2Marshall University, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, WV 25701, USA
Corresponding Author
Joseph I. Shapiro, ShapiroJ@marshall.edu
Received Date: January 30, 2020
Accepted Date: March 25, 2020
Haller ST, Shapiro JI. Trade-off and Cardiotonic Steroid Signaling: Natriuresis Maintains Sodium Balance at The Expense of Cardiac Fibrosis. J Cell Immunol. 2020; 2(3): 80-83.
Copyright: © 2020 Haller ST, 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.
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