Evidence for Angiotensin-converting Enzyme 2 as a Therapeutic Target for the Prevention of Pulmonary Hypertension - Concepedia

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Evidence for Angiotensin-converting Enzyme 2 as a Therapeutic Target for the Prevention of Pulmonary Hypertension

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2009

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Anderson J. Ferreira, Vinayak Shenoy, Yoriko Yamazato, Srinivas Sriramula, Joseph Francis, Lihui Yuan, Ronald K. Castellano, David A. Ostrov, S. Paul Oh, Michael J. Katovich,

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Abstract

These observations provide conceptual support that activation of ACE2 by a small molecule can be a therapeutically relevant approach for treating and controlling PH.

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