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Cardiac angiotensin converting enzyme overproduction indicates interstitial activation in renovascular hypertension

DOI

36

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0

References

1995

Year

Mireille Challah, Antonino Nicoletti, Jean‐François Arnal, M. Philippe, I Laboulandine, J Allegrini, F. Alhenc-Gelas, Sergei M. Danilov, Jean‐Baptiste Michel
Cardiovascular Research

Abstract

Besides its usual endothelial expression, ACE is absent from cardiomyocytes and present in interstitial tissue, in the pericoronary spaces in normal tissue and more markedly in hypertrophied ventricles.