Hypertension

New hypertension research from University of Birmingham discussed

Published in Blood Weekly, June 11th, 2009

According to recent research published in the American Journal of Hypertension, "The F11Receptor (F11R, also known as junctional adhesion molecule A (JAM-A)) plays a role in the development of hypertension in rat. Genetic variants in the human F 11 R gene were demonstrated to influence systolic blood pressure."

"In the present study, we investigated the relationship between F11R and hypertension by examining the levels of a circulating soluble form of F11R (sF11R) in hypertensive patients. Plasma sF11R was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in 152 hypertensive and 166 normotensive subjects in whom seven tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2009-06-11)

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