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Pharmacological effects of raas blockade in ischemic nephropathy [PDF]

, 2016
Background: The management of ischemic nephropathy due to atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis has become increasingly conservative in the modern era, with current guidelines recommending optimized medical therapy as the initial step.
Barbano, Biagio, Cianci, Rosario, Coppolino, Giuseppe, Di Mario, Francesca, Farrah, Tariq E., Fuiano, Giorgio, Gigante, Antonietta, Rivoli, Laura, Rosato, Edoardo   +8 more
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Expression and localization of the AT1 and AT2 angiotensin II receptors and α1A and α1D adrenergic receptors in aorta of hypertensive and diabetic rats

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, 2017
Hypertension and diabetes are multifactorial diseases that frequently coexist and exacerbate each another. During the development of diabetes, the impairment of noradrenergic and renin-angiotensin systems has been reported in the response mediated by α1 ...
Jessica Edith Rodríguez, Rodrigo Romero-Nava, Aldo Arturo Reséndiz-Albor, Erika Rosales-Cruz, Enrique Hong, Fengyang Huang, Santiago Villafaña   +6 more
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Heterodimerization of apelin receptor and neurotensin receptor 1 induces phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and cell proliferation via Gαq-mediated mechanism [PDF]

, 2014
Dimerization of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is crucial for receptor function including agonist affinity, efficacy, trafficking and specificity of signal transduction, including G protein coupling.
Bai, B, Cai, X, Chen, J, Chen, J, Jiang, Y, Karteris, E   +5 more
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Understanding the Pathophysiology of COVID-19: Could the Contact System Be the Key?

Frontiers in Immunology, 2020
To date the pathophysiology of COVID-19 remains unclear: this represents a factor determining the current lack of effective treatments. In this paper, we hypothesized a complex host response to SARS-CoV-2, with the Contact System (CS) playing a pivotal ...
Simone Meini, Andrea Zanichelli, Rodolfo Sbrojavacca, Federico Iuri, Anna Teresa Roberts, Chiara Suffritti, Carlo Tascini   +6 more
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Vascular smooth muscle contraction in hypertension [PDF]

, 2018
Hypertension is a major risk factor for many common chronic diseases, such as heart failure, myocardial infarction, stroke, vascular dementia and chronic kidney disease.
Alves-Lopes, Rheure, Anagnostopoulou, Aikaterini, Arner, Anders, De Lucca Camargo, Livia, Montezano, Augusto C., Rios, Francisco J., Touyz, Rhian M.   +6 more
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Angiotensin Ii Receptor Blockers [PDF]

Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2003
The ARBs have very similar clinical profiles. They do, however, have different pharmacokinetic profiles, which may lead to some differences in efficacy. The newer agents irbesartan, candesartan, telmisartan, and olmesartan have longer half-lives and durations of action than the older agents losartan and valsartan (5).
Amy, Barreras, Cheryle, Gurk-Turner
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Renal pericytes: regulators of medullary blood flow [PDF]

, 2012
Regulation of medullary blood flow (MBF) is essential in maintaining normal kidney function. Blood flow to the medulla is supplied by the descending vasa recta (DVR), which arise from the efferent arterioles of juxtamedullary glomeruli.
Agmon Y., Beach R.E., Biondi M., Burnstock G., Casellas D., Cohen H.J., Edwards R.M., Guan Z., Harrison‐Bernard L.M., Harrison‐Bernard L.M., Jamison R.L., Kreisberg M.S., Kriz W., Larson T.S., Lazarowski E.R., Lerman L.O., Majid D.S., Pallone T.L., Rouget C., Seldin D.W., Stern M.D., Strick D.M., Takenaka T., Takezawa K., Turner M.R., Unwin R.J., Yamagishi S., Yang S.   +27 more
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Angiotensin Type 2 Receptors: Painful, or Not?

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2020
Pain in response to various types of acute injury can be a protective stimulus to prevent the organism from using the injured part and allow tissue repair and healing. On the other hand, neuropathic pain, defined as ‘pain caused by a lesion or disease of
Lakshmi Pulakat, Lakshmi Pulakat, Colin Sumners   +2 more
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Natriuretic peptides and cardiovascular damage in the metabolic syndrome. Molecular mechanisms and clinical implications [PDF]

, 2010
Natriuretic peptides are endogenous antagonists of vasoconstrictor and salt- and water-retaining systems in the body's defence against blood pressure elevation and plasma volume expansion, through direct vasodilator, diuretic and natriuretic properties ...
ALONZO, ALESSANDRO, Rossi C, RUBATTU, Speranza Donatella, SAVOIA, Carmine, VOLPE, Massimo   +4 more
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Angiotensin AT1 and AT2 receptor heteromer expression in the hemilesioned rat model of Parkinson’s disease that increases with levodopa-induced dyskinesia

Journal of Neuroinflammation, 2020
Background/aims The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is altered in Parkinson’s disease (PD), a disease due to substantia nigra neurodegeneration and whose dopamine-replacement therapy, using the precursor levodopa, leads to dyskinesias as the main side ...
Rafael Rivas-Santisteban, Ana I. Rodriguez-Perez, Ana Muñoz, Irene Reyes-Resina, José Luis Labandeira-García, Gemma Navarro, Rafael Franco   +6 more
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