Aliskiren, a human renin inhibitor, ameliorates cardiac and renal damage in double-transgenic rats

B Pilz, E Shagdarsuren, M Wellner, A Fiebeler… - …, 2005 - Am Heart Assoc
human renin inhibitor aliskiren to test the efficacy of the compound in preventing progression
of pre-existing albuminuria and target organ … possibility of ameliorating target organ injury, a …

Renin-angiotensin system and cardiovascular functions

CH Wu, S Mohammadmoradi, JZ Chen… - … , and vascular biology, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Renin is the rate-limiting enzyme of the renin-angiotensin system … properties make renin a
potentially attractive target to inhibit the renin-… Inhibition of renin reduces blood pressure and …

Is there a future for renin inhibitors?

NDL Fisher, NK Hollenberg - Expert Opinion on Investigational …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
… The ultimate goal of treating hypertension is reduction of morbidity, mortality and target
organ damage, so that analysis restricted to blood pressure measurement clearly is simplistic. …

The intrarenal renin-angiotensin system in hypertension

LG Navar - Kidney international, 2004 - kidney-international.org
… Even though this woman does not have severe hypertension, even moderately elevated
arterial pressure in patients with diabetes can pose serious long-term risks for target organ

How is the brain renin–angiotensin system regulated?

P Nakagawa, CD Sigmund - Hypertension, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
… Subfornical organ-selective deletion of the PRR by intracerebroventricular adeno-associated
virus-PRR-short-hairpin RNA delivery in double-transgenic mice expressing human renin

Clinical perspectives and fundamental aspects of local cardiovascular and renal renin-angiotensin systems

WC De Mello, ED Frohlich - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
… Evidence for the potential role of organ specific cardiovascular renin–angiotensin systems (…
; structural and functional changes of the target organs associated with prolonged dietary salt …

Prorenin and (pro)renin receptor: a review of available data from in vitro studies and experimental models in rodents

G Nguyen, AHJ Danser - Experimental physiology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… for renin and its precursor, prorenin, named the (pro)renin receptor [(P)RR], has modified our
conception of renin as … Renin and prorenin binding to the receptor allows these enzymes to …

High human renin hypertension in transgenic rats

J Bohlender, A Fukamizu, A Lippoldt, T Nomura… - …, 1997 - Am Heart Assoc
… However, for study of the human renin-angiotensin system in the rat for … human renin-angiotensin
system for generation of Ang II. We measured components of the rat and human renin-…

Inhibition of the renin–angiotensin system and chronic kidney disease

KC Siamopoulos, RG Kalaitzidis - International urology and nephrology, 2008 - Springer
… for hypertension, especially in patients with hypertensive target organ damage [11]. Regarding
the … Recently the development of an oral active renin inhibitor has provided an alternative …

The intrarenal renin-angiotensin system: from physiology to the pathobiology of hypertension and kidney disease

H Kobori, M Nangaku, LG Navar, A Nishiyama - Pharmacological reviews, 2007 - ASPET
… of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in the pathophysiology of hypertension and organ injury
… Proximal tubular angiotensinogen, collecting duct renin, and tubular angiotensin II type 1 (…