From Living in Saltwater to a Scarcity of Salt and Water, and Then an Overabundance of Salt-The Biological Roller Coaster to Which the Renin-Angiotensin System Has Had to Adapt: An Editorial

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Journal Biomedicines

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2023 Nov 25

PMID 38002004

Authors

Gyorgy L Nadasy

Andras Balla

Maria Szekeres

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Abstract

Angiotensin II (Ang II) is a hormone with much more complex actions than is typical for other agonists with heterotrimeric G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) [...].

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