The Preventive Effects of Diminazene Aceturate in Renal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Male and Female Rats

Background. Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2/angiotensin (1-7)/Mas receptor (ACE2/Ang-1-7/MasR) appears to counteract most of the deleterious actions of angiotensin-converting enzyme/angiotensin II/angiotensin II receptor 1 (ACE/Ang II/AT1R) in renal ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury but ACE2 activit...

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Main Authors: Maryam Malek, Mehdi Nematbakhsh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Advances in Preventive Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/740647