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Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme and Hypertension: A Systemic Analysis of Various ACE Inhibitors, Their Side Effects, and Bioactive Peptides as a Putative Therapy for Hypertension

Journal of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System, 2023
Hypertension is a major risk factor for heart attack, produce atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), congestive heart failure, stroke, kidney infection, blindness, end-stage renal infection, and cardiovascular diseases. Many mechanisms are involved
Hafiz Ahmad, Huma Khan, S. Haque, Shameem Ahmad, N. Srivastava, Azhar Khan   +5 more
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Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor / Angiotensin II Receptor Blocker in COVID-19: a Double-edged Sword or a Myth

Nepalese Medical Journal, 2020
Angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 receptor has been unearthed as a prime site of entry of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 owing to its strong affinity towards spike protein of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, resulting in ...
Kunal Bikram Shaha, Ashok Adhikari, Jung Rae Cho, Bimal Pandey, Yubaraj Sharma, Sajjad Safi   +5 more
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Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) as a SARS-CoV-2 receptor: molecular mechanisms and potential therapeutic target

Intensive Care Medicine, 2020
A novel infectious disease, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease (COVID-19) spread rapidly, reaching epidemic proportions in China, and has been found in 27 ...
Haibo Zhang, J. Penninger, Yimin Li, N. Zhong, Arthur S Slutsky   +4 more
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COVID-19: angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) expression and tissue susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2021
COVID-19 pandemic is caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is not only an enzyme but also a functional receptor on cell surfaces through which SARS-CoV-2 enters the host cells and is highly expressed in the ...
Stephany Beyerstedt, E. B. Casaro, É. B. Rangel   +2 more
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Association of Inpatient Use of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers With Mortality Among Patients With Hypertension Hospitalized With COVID-19

Circulation Research, 2020
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Rationale: Use of ACEIs (angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors) and ARBs (angiotensin II receptor blockers) is a major concern for clinicians treating coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in ...
Peng Zhang, Lihua Zhu, Jingjing Cai, Fang Lei, Juan-Juan Qin, Jing Xie, Ye Liu, Yan-Ci Zhao, Xuewei Huang, Lijin Lin, Meng Xia, Ming-Ming Chen, Xu Cheng, Xiao Zhang, D. Guo, Yuanyuan Peng, Yan‐Xiao Ji, J. Chen, Zhi‐Gang She, Yibin Wang, Qingbo Xu, Renfu Tan, Hai-tao Wang, Jun Lin, Pengcheng Luo, Shouzhi Fu, Hongbing Cai, P. Ye, B. Xiao, W. Mao, Liming Liu, You-qin Yan, Mingyu Liu, Manhua Chen, Xiao-Jing Zhang, Xinghuan Wang, R. Touyz, J. Xia, Bing-Hong Zhang, Xiaodong Huang, Yufeng Yuan, L. Rohit, Peter P. Liu, Hongliang Li   +43 more
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Dietary Potassium Downregulates Angiotensin-I Converting Enzyme, Renin, and Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2020
BackgroundThe importance of dietary potassium in health and disease has been underestimated compared with that placed on dietary sodium. Larger effort has been made on reduction of sodium intake and less on the adequate dietary potassium intake, although
Carlos P. Vio, Carlos P. Vio, Pedro Gallardo, Carlos Cespedes, Carlos Cespedes, Daniela Salas, Jessica Diaz-Elizondo, Natalia Mendez   +7 more
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Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) attenuates severe acute respiratory coronavirus disease 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection by blocking the interaction of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein receptor-binding domain to human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2.

PLoS ONE, 2022
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 triggered a global pandemic where control is needed through therapeutic and preventive interventions. This study aims to identify natural compounds
Tomokazu Ohishi, Takayuki Hishiki, Mirza S Baig, Sajjan Rajpoot, Uzma Saqib, Tomohiko Takasaki, Yukihiko Hara   +6 more
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Variation of Concentrations of Angiotensin II, AngiotensinConverting Enzyme and Matrix Metalloprotease-9 in Tears and Serum of Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy

Oftalʹmologiâ, 2020
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is becoming more and more widespread disease. Investigation of local changes of metabolic pathways in the eye improves our knowledge about diabetic retinopathy pathogenesis and provide perspective for the development of new ...
V. V. Neroev, N. B. Chesnokova, T. A. Pavlenko, T. D. Okhotsimskaya, O. V. Beznos, V. A. Fadeeva, S. V. Struchkova   +6 more
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Role of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in COVID-19

Critical Care, 2020
An outbreak of pneumonia caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that started in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019 has become a global pandemic.
W. Ni, Xiuwen Yang, Deqing Yang, J. Bao, Ran Li, Yongjiu Xiao, C. Hou, Haibin Wang, Jie Liu, Dong-hong Yang, Yu Xu, Zhaolong Cao, Zhancheng Gao   +12 more
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Angiotensin-converting Enzyme Inhibitors: Can it be a Potential Treatment of Infantile Hemangioma

Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, 2021
Aims: The aim of the sudy was to evaluate potential role of oral captopril, an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, and in treatment of infantile hemagioma (IH) and report our preliminary results.
Archika Gupta, Shiv Narain Kureel, Anand Pandey, Gurmeet Singh, Akhilesh Kumar, Gaurav Shandilya, Rahul Kumar Rai, Survesh Kumar Gupta   +7 more
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