Renin,(pro) renin and receptor: an update

G Nguyen - Clinical Science, 2011 - portlandpress.com
… is totally independent of renin, as renin is not expressed in … performed, and Drosophila
and Hydra do not have renin. … in human glioblastoma and have shown that inhibition of renin

Review of aldosterone-and angiotensin II-induced target organ damage and prevention

AD Struthers, TM MacDonald - Cardiovascular research, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… that lead to progressive target organ damage in the heart, … the risk of progressive target
organ damage in patients with … may produce improved target organ protection as witnessed …

Increased (pro) renin receptor expression in the subfornical organ of hypertensive humans

SG Cooper, DP Trivedi, R Yamamoto… - American Journal …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
… that, in the subfornical organ of the human brain, the (pro)renin receptor is expressed in …
renin receptor immunoreactivity in the subfornical organ is increased in hypertensive humans

Nitric oxide-independent stimulation of soluble guanylate cyclase reduces organ damage in experimental low-renin and high-renin models

Y Sharkovska, P Kalk, B Lawrenz, M Godes… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
… This study describes the pharmacological properties of a novel sGC stimulator riociguat (BAY
63-2521) and its effects on target organ damage in low-renin and high-renin rat models of …

Structure of recombinant human renin, a target for cardiovascular-active drugs, at 2.5 Å resolution

AR Sielecki, K Hayakawa, M Fujinaga, MEP Murphy… - Science, 1989 - science.org
… For example, in the loop near the NH2-terminus, residues Thr7 to Tyr'5 [the numbering
throughout is based on our alignment of the human renin sequence with that of porcine pepsin (26…

[HTML][HTML] Classical renin-angiotensin system in kidney physiology

MA Sparks, SD Crowley, SB Gurley… - Comprehensive …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… as human, mice, rats, dogs, and zebra fish. Its structure is similar to that of pepsinogen, a
related aspartyl protease, suggesting a common evolutionary origin (135). The human renin

Physiology of local renin-angiotensin systems

M Paul, A Poyan Mehr, R Kreutz - Physiological reviews, 2006 - journals.physiology.org
renin promoter. Transgenic mice carrying a genomic human renin construct showed no cardiac
renin … control of its own promoter expressed high levels of renin mRNA in the heart (549). …

Recent advances involving the renin–angiotensin system

SD Crowley, TM Coffman - Experimental cell research, 2012 - Elsevier
… Studies with the specific AT 2 receptor agonist, compound 21 (C21) have highlighted AT 2
's role to counteract the detrimental effects of AT 1 receptor activation on target organ damage. …

Physiological relevance of renin/prorenin binding and uptake

DF Catanzaro - Hypertension research, 2005 - nature.com
… These effects may also contribute to target organ damage independent of the effects of Ang
… formed by human renin if it entered or were taken up by cardiomyocytes expressing human

Effects of inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system on hypertension-induced target organ damage: clinical and experimental evidence

MR De Luca, D Sorriento, D Massa… - … Archives for Chest …, 2021 - monaldi-archives.org
… The dysregulation of renin-angiotensin-system (RAS) plays a pivotal role in hypertension
and in the development of the related target organ damage (TOD). The main goal of treating …