Acute coadministrations of an inhibitor of endopeptidase 24.11 (thiorphan) and a ligand (SC-46542) selective for the non-guanylate cyclase-linked atriopeptin binding sites increases urinary sodium ...

Although much experimental evidence is consistent with the concept that atrial natriuretic factor (atriopeptin) is an important physiological regulator of renal sodium excretion, this hypothesis ...

Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is a hormone with the physiological characteristics of a regulator of body fluid volume. It is potent, has a short duration of action, and responds to a physiologically ...

We thank G. Feng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for ChAT-ChR2-EYFP mice and Z. Liu and C. Qin (National Institute of Biological Sciences) for help with behavioral assays. M.L. is supported by ...

Corin is a recently discovered pro-atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) convertase that is abundantly expressed in the heart. ANP is a cardiac hormone but can be secreted ectopically by certain cancers ...

In this article, we report that anti–neutral endopeptidase antibodies produced by a pregnant woman were transferred to her fetus, in which a severe form of membranous glomerulonephritis ...

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