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Vasodilator profile of synthetic atrial natriuretic factor

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This first demonstration of the vascular activity of synthetic ANF depicts this substance as a nonselective vasodilator of agonist-induced contractions and suggests a common mechanism of action with sodium nitroprusside.
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This article is published in European Journal of Pharmacology.The article was published on 1984-06-15. It has received 208 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hydralazine & Angiotensin II.

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The Heart and the Atrial Natriuretic Factor

Marc Cantin, +1 more
- 01 Apr 1985 - 
TL;DR: The search for natriuretic hormones or factors by studies of negative pressure breathing, atrial distension experiments, head-out water immersion, expansion of blood volume, Na+/K+-ATPase inhibitors and parabiosis experiments in Dahl rats has led to the finding that the atria are a peptide-secreting endocrine gland.
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Plasma atrial natriuretic peptide in cardiac disease and during infusion in healthy volunteers

TL;DR: ANP appears to be a circulating hormone in man, at least in severe CHF and supraventricular tachycardia, and plasma ANP levels returned to baseline within 15 min of stopping the infusion.
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Clinical application of atrial natriuretic polypeptide in patients with congestive heart failure: beneficial effects on left ventricular function.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that the ANP infusion improves left ventricular function in patients with CHF, and suggest that this improvement results mainly from the vasodilating activity of ANP.
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Cyclic GMP and mechanisms of vasodilation

TL;DR: This review is the result of a widening interest in the role of cGMP in vascular smooth muscle function and now appreciate the fact that cG MP plays a key role in regulating vascular, and probably non-vascular, smooth muscle contractile activity.
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Smooth Muscle Ion Channels and Regulation of Vascular Tone in Resistance Arteries and Arterioles.

TL;DR: The physiology of VGCCs, voltage-gated K+ (KV) channels, large-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ and BKCa channels, strong-inward-rectifier K-IR channels, ATP-sensitive K+ channels, ryanodine receptors (RyRs), inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors (IP3Rs), and a variety of transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are reviewed.
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A rapid and potent natriuretic response to intravenous injection of atrial myocardial extract in rats

TL;DR: It is concluded that the atrial extract contained an extremely powerful inhibitor of renal tubular NaCl re absorption, which caused a rapid, more than 30-fold increase of sodium and chloride excretions, while urine volume and potassium excretion doubled.
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Stimulation of guanylate cyclase by sodium nitroprusside, nitroglycerin and nitric oxide in various tissue preparations and comparison to the effects of sodium azide and hydroxylamine.

TL;DR: The ability of these agents to increase cyclic GMP levels in intact tissues is probably due to their effects on guanylate cyclase activity.
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Bioactive cardiac substances: potent vasorelaxant activity in mammalian atria.

TL;DR: It appears that atria possess at least two peptides that elicit smooth muscle relaxation and natriuresis, suggesting an endogenous system of fluid volume regulation.
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Purification and sequence analysis of bioactive atrial peptides (atriopeptins)

TL;DR: Both peptides appear to be derived from a common high molecular weight precursor (designated atriopeptigen); their biological selectivity and potency may be determined by the site of carboxyl terminal cleavage.
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Amino acid sequence of homologous rat atrial peptides: natriuretic activity of native and synthetic forms.

TL;DR: The proposed primary structure agrees entirely with the amino acid composition and reveals no significant sequence homology with any known protein or segment of protein.
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