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Long-Range Control of Renin Gene Expression in Tsukuba Hypertensive Mice.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Ushiki Aki, Matsuzaki Hitomi, Ishida Junji, Fukamizu Akiyoshi, Tanimoto Keiji
Abstract excerpt
Renin, a rate-limiting enzyme in the renin-angiotensin system, is regulated to maintain blood pressure homeostasis: renin gene expression in the kidney is suppressed in a hypertensive environment. We found that expression of a 15-kb human RENIN (hREN) transgene was aberrantly upregulated (>4.2-fold), while the endogenous mouse renin (mRen) gene was suppressed (>1.7-fold) in Tsukuba hypertensive mice (THM), a...
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