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Isolation of Atrial Cardiomyocytes from a Rat Model of Metabolic Syndrome-related Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
Published on: July 26, 2018
[Atrial natriuretic factor in endocrine pathology]
Abstract:
The content of basal immunoreactive atrial natriuretic hormone (ANH) in the venous blood plasma was studied in patients with various types of endocrine hypertension (Conn's syndrome, pheochromocytoma, neuroendocrine form of hypothalamic syndrome, diabetes mellitus) and diffuse toxic goiter. Increase of the ANH level was revealed in patients with primary aldosteronism, diabetes mellitus and hypertension, as well as with decompensated thyrotoxicosis and pronounced cardiac changes. In patients with neuroendocrine pattern of the hypothalamic syndrome the ANH level remained unchanged, in those with pheochromocytoma it decreased.
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