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The role of the renin-angiotensin system in malignant vascular injury affecting the systemic and cerebral circulations.
Progress in biophysics and molecular biology - 1 Jan 2000
Collidge Tara A, Lammie G Alistair, Fleming Stewart, Mullins John J
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Malignant hypertension is a rare but serious syndrome complicating 1% of essential hypertension and causing neurological, renal and cardiac complications. Despite improved anti-hypertensive medication, the incidence of this condition fails to decline. In the first part of this review, we discuss transgenic rat models of malignant hypertension, generated by over-expressing renin, to illustrate the role of the...
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