Sixtieth Anniversary of Angiotensin

The journal, very recently, paid tribute to the 100th anniversary of the discovery of renin by Tigerstedt and Bergman.1,2 Forty years later, 2 independent investigative groups in Buenos Aires and Indianapolis, headed by Drs Eduardo Braun-Menendez and Irvine H. Page, respectively, identified the active polypeptide angiotensin that explained the pressor effect of renal hypertension.3–6 Thus, using relatively unsophisticated methods (in terms of present day technology), the precise peptide that produced experimental renal hypertension was identified.In the accompanying online-only historical commentary, Drs Nidia Basso and …