ACE2 expression and activity are enhanced during pregnancy

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 295, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Levy, Anat ^a   Yagil, Yoram ^a,c   Bursztyn, Michael ^b   Barkalifa, Ronit ^a   Scharf, Shimon ^a   Yagil, Chana ^a  

^a Israeli Rat Genome Center   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Dept of Nephrology and Hypertension   (Israel)

Author keywords

Activity; Placenta; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN CONVERTING ENZYME 2; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; KIDNEY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERUS; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; KIDNEY; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION; UTERUS;

EID: 57749108210     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.90592.2008     Document Type: Article

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