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View Post: What makes the juxtaglomerular apparatus release renin?
6 Nov 2009 by admin  
There are actually three different types of cells in the JGA: granular cells (which secrete renin), macula densa cells (which secrete a vasopressive substance that acts on the afferent glomerular arteriole) and mesangial cells (whose ...
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View Post: The Effect of Direct Renin Inhibition on Renal Hemodynamic ...
4 Nov 2009 by Cherney, D. Z.I., Lai, V., Scholey, J....  
Blockade of the renin angiotensin system (RAS) plays an important role in preventing end-organ injury associated with diabetes mellitus (DM). The recent development of direct renin inhibitors (DRI) provides a new approach to block the ...
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View Post: Beta and Alpha Receptors effects on Insulin and Renin
4 Nov 2009 by rasheed  
I always confuse these effects I came up with something to help us remember them Always think Beta Booster So: Stimulation of beta 1 receptors leads to increased renin secretion; Stimulation of beta 2 receptors leads to increased ...
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View Post: Effects of imatinib mesylate on renin-angiotensin system (RAS ...
23 Oct 2009 by rob  
This study aimed to assess expressions of the RAS components, renin, angiotensinogen and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), during imatinib mesylate treatment of patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). ...
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View Post: Hypotonicity-Induced Renin Exocytosis from Juxtaglomerular Cells ...
30 Sep 2009 by Friis, UG, Madsen, K., Svenningsen, P.,...  
The mechanism by which extracellular hypotonicity stimulates release of renin from juxtaglomerular (JG) cells is unknown. We hypothesized that osmotically induced renin release depends on water movement through aquaporin-1 (AQP1) water ...
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View Post: Mice Overexpressing Both Human Angiotensinogen and Human Renin as ...
12 Oct 2009 by Falcao, S., Stoyanova, E., Cloutier, G.,...  
Because hypertension is an important risk factor for preeclampsia, we investigated whether hypertensive mice that overexpress human renin and angiotensinogen develop superimposed preeclampsia. Given that the mechanisms underlying this ...
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View Post: PCP wants angioscopy d/t extremely high renin!
22 Oct 2009
My renin was really high and aldosterone was normal. He said that the only reason for this is either a blocked renal artery or a renin secreting tumor in my kidney. I have had the abdominal ct scan and kidneys were clear but he says ...
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