Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, August 25th, 2006
Study 1: Angiotensin II may play a role in the pathogenesis of transplant arteriosclerosis.
"Transplant arteriosclerosis remains the major cause of graft failure after cardiac transplantation, although recent progress in immunosuppressive therapy has dramatically improved short-term survival of recipient.
"We investigated the effects of the angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT1 R) blocker candesartan on the development of transplant arteriosclerosis in a murine model of cardiac transplantation," scientists writing in the...
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