background respiratory distress syndrome (rds) is considered as one of the most popular prematurity-related respiratory problems and among the most prominent reasons of deaths in preterm infants. objectives brain natriuretic peptide (bnp) is the secret of the volume and pressure overload response of the vessels and decreases due to resistance as well as rises in systemic vessels and also in dec...

      Kawasaki disease (KD) is characterized as the leading cause of acquired cardiac disease in children. Accurate and timely diagnosis of KD is of high importance for preventing its cardiac complications. However, diagnosis merely based on clinical findings has a number of challenges and, limitations. Therefore, researchers are investigating to find more object...

Recently, increasing attention has been directed toward better understanding the physiological role and clinical importance of a wide range of endogenously released vasoactive peptides. The most well known of these are B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) (1–4). However, others have also attracted attention, including C-type natriuretic peptide, vasoactive intes...

Commentary Natriuretic peptides: are these new links in the hepatorenal connections? In 1981, de Bold et al' discovered that the heart produced a peptide factor, subsequently named atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), with potent actions affecting sodium metabolism and blood pressure. Since then, other related peptides, first brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), and more recently C type natriuretic pe...