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What is an angiotensin?

What is an angiotensin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) Any of several polypeptides that narrow blood vessels and thus regulate arterial pressure.
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Among the drugs most widely employed used to lower blood pressure are the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors.
We restricted our analyses to loop diuretics, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, blockers, spironolactone, and digoxin.
This class of receptors includes the angiotensin, bradykinin and vasopressin receptors.
It inhibits formation of renin into angiotensin, the last is a biologically active substance with vasoconstrictor and hypertensive effects.
The underlying mechanisms by which angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors prevent vascular events have been discussed widely.
Moller and colleagues, for example, recently found increased angiotensin II and aldosterone in patients with sleep apnea.

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