Angiotensin-(1-7) for diabetic kidney disease: better than an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor alone?

Marquez, Alonso; Batlle, Daniel · Kidney Int · 2019

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Abstract

In this commentary we emphasize the renoprotective effect of cyclic angiotensin-(1-7) described by Cassis et al. in a mouse model of diabetic kidney disease. The importance of the study is that this peptide was even more protective than the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor lisinopril administered alone and that when the 2 componds were combined, the renoprotective action was additive.

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