Vascular Endothelial Adrenomedullin-RAMP2 System Is Essential for Vascular Integrity and Organ Homeostasis
Author(s) -
Teruhide Koyama,
Laura OchoaCallejero,
Takayuki Sakurai,
Akiko Kamiyoshi,
Yuka IchikawaShindo,
Nobuyoshi Iinuma,
T. Arai,
Takahiro Yoshizawa,
Yasuhiro Iesato,
Lei Yang,
Ryuichi Uetake,
Ayano Okimura,
Akihiro Yamauchi,
Megumu Tanaka,
Kyoko Igarashi,
Yuichi Toriyama,
Hisaka Kawate,
Ralf H. Adams,
Hayato Kawakami,
Naoki Mochizuki,
Alfredo Martı́nez,
Takayuki Shindo
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.112.000756
Subject(s) - adrenomedullin , medicine , cardiac fibrosis , microbiology and biotechnology , cancer research , biology , endocrinology , fibrosis , receptor
Revealing the mechanisms underlying the functional integrity of the vascular system could make available novel therapeutic approaches. We previously showed that knocking out the widely expressed peptide adrenomedullin (AM) or receptor activity-modifying protein 2 (RAMP2), an AM-receptor accessory protein, causes vascular abnormalities and is embryonically lethal. Our aim was to investigate the function of the vascular AM-RAMP2 system directly.
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