Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAS) constitutes a key hormonal system in the physiological and pathological regulation of blood pressure. In effort to understand complex and multifunctional aspects of this system, current biochemical approaches target to characterize and define its various components with angiotensin II being in the mainstream.Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate concentrations of angiotensin II in hype...