Direct renin inhibition with aliskiren in hypertension and target organ damage

DN Mu, FC Luft - Clinical Journal of the American Society of …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
… A novel animal model of high human renin hypertension in the rat attest to target organ
therapy all lead to sharp increases in plasma renin activity, aliskiren offers a novel circumvention. …

Inhibition of the renin–angiotensin system and target organ protection

J Iwanami, M Mogi, M Iwai, M Horiuchi - Hypertension Research, 2009 - nature.com
… basic mechanisms of target organ damage induced by RAS in each organ and the effect of
… (ARBs), on target organ damage are discussed, together with the recent paradigm of RAS. …

Signal transduction of the (pro) renin receptor as a novel therapeutic target for preventing end-organ damage

H Funke-Kaiser, FS Zollmann, JH Schefe… - Hypertension …, 2010 - nature.com
… Binding of renin to this receptor increases the catalytic activity of renin by about four- to … I)
in solution, gains enzyme activity comparable to that of renin by binding to the (P)RR, that is, the …

Update on tissue renin–angiotensin systems

M Bader, D Ganten - Journal of Molecular Medicine, 2008 - Springer
human renin infusion, indicating that the SFO is of pivotal importance for the central pressor
effect of Ang II. When in transgenic animals carrying human renin and human AOGEN, the …

Low-dose renin inhibitor and low-dose AT1-receptor blocker therapy ameliorate target-organ damage in rats harbouring human renin and angiotensinogen genes

R Dechend, E Shagdarsuren, P Gratze… - Journal of the renin …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
… Our data show that minimal doses of aliskiren, a new human renin inhibitor, provided
target organ protection without significant effects on BP, as did the AT1-receptor blocker. The …

Human skin: source of and target organ for angiotensin II

UM Steckelings, T Wollschläger, J Peters… - Experimental …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… In the case that skin is indeed a target organ for Ang II, it … angiotensinogen by the enzymes
renin (resulting in Ang I) and … of angiotensinogen, renin and ACE in diverse human cutaneous …

Tissue renin-angiotensin-aldosterone systems: Targets for pharmacological therapy

M Bader - Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology, 2010 - annualreviews.org
… the cardiovascular actions of the classical RAAS in target organs (35). … carrying human
renin and human angiotensinogen, water intake decreased (67). Thus, the subfornical organ is of …

New developments in renin and hypertension.

NJ Samani - BMJ: British Medical Journal, 1991 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… The renin-angiotensin system plays an important part in cardiovascular … II on target organs
such as the kidneys, the blood vessels, and the adrenals.' Standard teaching is that renin

Blockade of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system: effects on hypertensive target organ damage

AM Grandi, AM Maresca - Cardiovascular & Hematological …, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com
… drugs have been demonstrated to protect against target organ damage, reversing or preventing
its … target organ damage. THE RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN-ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM (RAAS) …

Prorenin/renin receptor, signals, and therapeutic efficacy of receptor blocker in end-organ damage

T Inagami, A Ichihara - Current hypertension reports, 2007 - Springer
… to human mesangial cells where prorenin and renin activated ERK 1… [14] observed that
recombinant human renin stimulated … , and PAI-1 in rat and human mesangial cells. Collagen and …