Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, 1993 Acute blockade of the renin-angiotensin system with the parenterally active angiotensin II antagonist saralasin has been shown to effectively lower blood pressure in a large fraction of patients with essential hypertension and to improve hemodynamics in some patients with congestive heart failure.
H R, Brunner +3 more
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Angiotensin-(1-7) and angiotensin-(1-9): function in cardiac and vascular remodeling [PDF]
, 2014 The renin angiotensin system (RAS) is integral to cardiovascular physiology, however, dysregulation of this system largely contributes to the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Akishita +123 more
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The effect of chronic peripheral nesfatin-1 application on blood pressure in normal and chronic restraint stressed rats: Related with circulating level of blood pressure regulators [PDF]
, 2015 Nesfatin is a peptide secreted by peripheral tissues, central and peripheral nervous system. It is involved in the regulation of homeostasis. Although the effects of nesfatin-1 on nutrition have been studied widely in the literature, the mechanisms of ...
Ayada, C. +3 more
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Evaluation of feline renal perfusion with contrast-enhanced ultrasonography and scintigraphy [PDF]
, 2016 Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is an emerging technique to evaluate tissue perfusion. Promising results have been obtained in the evaluation of renal perfusion in health and disease, both in human and veterinary medicine. Renal scintigraphy using Tc-
Bosmans, Tim +9 more
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Advance in Research of Angiotensin II and Its Receptor and Malignant Tumor
Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer, 2016 Angiotensin AngII, a linear small peptide,which is composed of eight amino acids, is the main effectors of renin-angiotensin systen (Renin-angiotensin system, RAS).
Lulu SUN, Jian SHI
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2015 Angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is a zinc carboxypeptidase involved in the renin angiotensin system (RAS) and inactivates the potent vasopressive peptide angiotensin II (Ang II) by removing the C-terminal phenylalanine residue to yield Ang1-7 ...
Daniel eClayton +6 more
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Angiotensin II facilitates fibrogenic effect of TGF-β1 through enhancing the down-regulation of BAMBI caused by LPS: a new pro-fibrotic mechanism of angiotensin II. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Angiotensin II has progressively been considered to play an important role in the development of liver fibrosis, although the mechanism isn't fully understood.
Yu-Sheng Li +6 more
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Immunohistochemical expression of intrarenal renin angiotensin system components in response to tempol in rats fed a high salt diet [PDF]
, 2017 AIM:To determine the effect of tempol in normal rats fed high salt on arterial pressure and the balance between antagonist components of the renal renin-angiotensin system.METHODS:Sprague-Dawley rats were fed with 8% NaCl high-salt (HS) or 0.4% NaCl ...
Cao, Gabriel Fernando +7 more
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Annihilator Banach ∗-algebras and the Peter-Weyl theorem [PDF]
, 1976 The QUO VADIS (the effects of QUinapril On Vascular Ace and Determinants of ISchemia) study was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial designed to evaluate the effects of long-term angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition on ...
Dennis Wildfogel +15 more
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2017 BackgroundThe significance of brain angiotensin II in Alzheimer disease (AD) is unclear. Methods and ResultsTo examine the role of brain angiotensin II in AD, intracerebroventricular angiotensin II infusion was performed on 5XFAD mice, a mouse model of ...
Koki Takane +6 more
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