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Cardiac aldosterone production and ventricular remodeling

C Delcayre1, J S Silvestre, A Garnier

  • 1INSERM U127, Hôpital Lariboisière, IFR Circulation, Université Denis Diderot, Paris, France. delcayre@infobiogen.fr

Kidney International
|April 12, 2000
PubMed
Summary

Myocardial infarction (MI) activates cardiac aldosterone synthesis in rats, increasing aldosterone levels. This process, mediated by angiotensin II and its AT1 receptor, may contribute to heart remodeling after MI.

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