Atrial natriuretic factor: A ventricular hormone?

Effects of atrial natriuretic factor on hormone-induced renin release.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not atrial natriuretic factor can act directly on the juxtaglomerular cell in vivo to inhibit hormone-induced renin release. To achieve this objective the interaction between synthetic atrial natriuretic factor and two different renin secretagogues was examined. To exclude any indirect effect of atrial natriuretic factor on renin release due...

Is atrial natriuretic peptide really a hormone?

Atrial natriuretic factor.

A short and up-to-date review on the great advances made in the field of the atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is presented. All the short active peptides (up to 33 AA) isolated after purification of atrial homogenates have the same core of 23 amino acids (Ser 103-ARG 125). The ANF liberated in the medium of cultures of rat atrial cardiocytes is the 26 amino acid Arg 101-Tyr 126. Cloning of the c...

Atrial natriuretic factor and the atrial function.

Accessible online at: http://BioMedNet.com/karger Dear Sir, I read with interest the report by Takeichi et al. [1] on the relationship between left atrial function and plasma levels of atrial natriuretic peptide in patients with various types of heart disease. I would like to make three comments. First, the term atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is preferable to the term atrial natriuretic peptid...

Effect of Extracellular Calcium Depletion on Atrial Natriuretic Factor Secretion and Gene Expression

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