Endocrine Abstracts

Approximately 10% of essential hypertension cases is attributed to primary aldosteronism (PA), where inappropriately high levels of aldosterone are secreted. Almost half of these PA cases result from aldosterone-producing adenoma. microRNAs are single-stranded, short non-coding RNAs that negatively regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally. In a previous study, we showed that microRNAs directly modulate CYP11B2 (aldosterone synthase) gene expression and aldoster...

Hypertension is a common risk factor for cardiovascular disease and up to 15% of hypertensive patients are now known to have primary aldosteronism (PA), where the adrenal glands secrete inappropriately high levels of the steroid hormone aldosterone. Of these cases, almost half are due to the presence of unilateral aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA). Aldosterone is synthesised in the zona glomerulosa of the adrenal cortex, with the final stages of production catalysed by aldos...