Human neutrophils release serine proteases capable of activating prorenin.
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Human neutrophils release serine proteases capable of activating prorenin.
Proteases from human neutrophils can generate angiotensin II directly from angiotensin I or angiotensinogen. We examined whether neutrophil protease also influences angiotensin formation by activating human prorenin (also called inactive renin). When incubated with partially purified plasma and amniotic prorenin, sonicates from 10(6) neutrophils resulted in 120 +/- 30% and 1,240 +/- 290% increa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation Research
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0009-7330,1524-4571
DOI: 10.1161/01.res.60.4.595