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Angiotensin II type-1 receptor activation in the adult heart causes blood pressure-independent hypertrophy and cardiac dysfunction.
Cardiovascular research - 15 Feb 2009
Ainscough Justin F X, Drinkhill Mark J, Sedo Alicia, Turner Neil A, Brooke David A, Balmforth Anthony J, Ball Stephen G
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AIMS: Sustained hypertension leads to cardiac hypertrophy that can progress, through pathological remodelling, to heart failure. Abnormality of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) has been strongly implicated in this process. Although hypertrophy in human is an established risk factor independent of blood pressure (BP), separation of remodelling in response to local cues within the differentiated myocardium from...
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