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Localization of angiotensin II receptor subtypes in the rabbit adrenal and kidney
W F Herblin1, S M Diamond, P B Timmermans
1Medical Products Department, Dupont Merck Pharmaceutical Company, Wilmington, DE.
Peptides
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
The localization of subtypes of the angiotensin II receptor has been determined by autoradiographic techniques using iodinated angiotensin II and two nonpeptide antagonists that exhibit selective affinities. DuP 753 specifically displaces type 1 sites (AII-1) and PD123177 inhibits only type 2 sites (AII-2). The rabbit adrenal cortex contains predominately AII-1 sites and the few AII-2 sites that are present are nonuniformly distributed. In the rabbit kidney, the fibrous outer sheath contains exclusively AII-2 sites whereas the glomeruli of the renal cortex and the renal medulla exhibit only AII-1 sites.