High plasma adrenomedullin concentrations in patients with high-renin essential hypertension
Adrenomedullin (AM) is a novel peptide, first isolated from human phaeochromocytoma, which elicits a long-lasting vasorelaxant activity. Recently, it has been reported that endothelial cells produce AM and that immunoreactive AM plasma levels may be elevated in human arterial hypertension, although...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi - SAGE Publishing
2002-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3317/jraas.2002.014 |