Angiotensin II receptors are present along the rat inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD), although their physiological role is unknown. Because urea is one of the major solutes transported across the terminal IMCD, we measured angiotensin II's effect on urea permeability. In the perfused rat terminal IMCD, angiotensin II had no effect on basal urea permeability but significantly increased vaso...

The purpose of this study was to examine in vivo the importance of angiotensin subtype 1 (AT1) versus subtype 2 (AT2) receptors in spontaneously hypertensive (hypertensive) versus normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (control) rats. Intravenous infusions of DuP 753, a selective AT1 receptor antagonist, abolished the pressor responses to intravenous infusions of angiotensin II in both strains, and the pote...

background: to evaluate the effect of cyclosporin a (csa) and angiotensin ii (ang ii) on cytosolic calcium levels in cultured human gingival fibroblasts (hgfs). materials and methods: healthy gingival samples from six volunteers were obtained, and primary hgfs were cultured. cell viability and proliferation assay were performed to identify the ideal concentrations of csa and ang ii. cytosolic c...

It is well recognized that the renin-angiotensin system plays an important role in the regulation of arterial pressure and sodium homeostasis. Recent years, many studies have shown that local tissue angiotensin II levels are differentially regulated and cannot be explained on the basis of circulating concentrations. All of the components needed for angiotensin II generation are present within t...

Angiotensin II is a potent arterial vasoconstrictor and induces hypertension. Angiotensin II also exerts a trophic effect on cardiomyocytes in vitro. The goals of the present study were to document an in vivo increase in cardiac angiotensins in the absence of elevated plasma levels or hypertension and to investigate prevention or regression of ventricular hypertrophy by renin-angiotensin system...

Inactivation of the gene encoding mouse angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE), which converts angiotensin I into angiotensin II, results in anemia in adult animals. This anemia is corrected by angiotensin II, demonstrating the involvement of angiotensin II in adult (definitive) erythropoiesis. We investigated the possible role of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in primitive erythropoiesis in...

Inactivation of the gene encoding mouse angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE), which converts angiotensin I into angiotensin II, results in anemia in adult animals. This anemia is corrected by angiotensin II, demonstrating the involvement of angiotensin II in adult (definitive) erythropoiesis. We investigated the possible role of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in primitive erythropoiesis in...

Angiotensin II, when given in low doses, raises blood pressure slowly. When tested in vitro on vascular smooth muscle cells, it has mitogenic and trophic effects; it is not known if it has these effects in vivo. Our purpose was to determine whether vascular hypertrophy develops during slow pressor infusion of angiotensin II and, if so, whether it is pressure induced. Three experiments were done...

Angiotensin II decreases glomerular filtration rate, renal plasma flow, and glomerular capillary hydraulic conductivity. Although angiotensin II receptors have been demonstrated in mesangial cells and proximal tubule cells, the presence of angiotensin II receptors in glomerular epithelial cells has not previously been shown. Previously, we have reported that angiotensin II caused an accumulatio...

there are controversial reports about the effect of captopril on pain modulation. also while captopril may potentiate morphine analgesia, enalapril has not such an effect and interaction of morphine with angiotensin ii receptor antagonists and other angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors has not been studied yet. therefore, this study was designed to assess the effect of captopril, lisinopril...