Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2: Cardioprotective player in the renin-angiotensin system?

Hypertension

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 816-817

  Turner, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN CONVERTING ENZYME 2; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; MLN 4760; RECOMBINANT ANGIOTENSIN CONVERTING ENZYME 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDITORIAL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART PROTECTION; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY METABOLISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HYPERTENSION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM;

EID: 55949128495     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.108.116137     Document Type: Editorial

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