| Literature DB >> 7859913 |
C Sumners1, M K Raizada, J Kang, D Lu, P Posner.
Abstract
Aside from its well-known and numerous actions at peripheral tissues, the octapeptide angiotensin II (ANG II) elicits specific receptor-mediated effects within the central nervous system. In this review we focus on the receptor-mediated actions of ANG II on neurons. The distribution of ANG II receptors in the brain and physiological, electrophysiological, and cellular effects mediated by these receptors are discussed. This is extended to a review of the characteristics of ANG II receptor subtypes on cultured neurons and the cellular and genomic actions mediated by these receptors. Finally, we develop this information into speculative models for the cellular effects mediated by each ANG II receptor subtype in neurons.Entities:
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Year: 1994 PMID: 7859913 DOI: 10.1006/frne.1994.1009
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Front Neuroendocrinol ISSN: 0091-3022 Impact factor: 8.606