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Mice lacking endothelial angiotensin-converting enzyme have a normal blood pressure.
Circulation research - 11 Jan 2002
Cole Justin, Quach Du Le, Sundaram Karthik, Corvol Pierre, Capecchi Mario R, Bernstein Kenneth E
Abstract excerpt
To test the hypothesis that local vascular production of angiotensin II is necessary for the normal regulation of blood pressure, we engineered a new line of genetically altered mice that lack endothelial angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE). This was accomplished using a novel strategy of targeted homologous recombination to separate the transcriptional control of somatic ACE from its endogenous promoter and to...
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