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ANGIOTENSIN is the pressure-active component of the renal pressor system and is suspected of playing a part in cases of human hypertension accompanied by primary or secondary renal lesions. The angiotensin-level results on one hand from its rate of synthesis by renin, on the other from its uptake by tissues and its inactivation by ‘angiotensinase’. Angiotensinase activity results from a peptidasic enzyme system which has not yet been shown to be specific.
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BIRON, P., LANDESMAN, R. & HUNT, J. Plasma Angiotensinase Activity in Human Hypertension. Nature 204, 1096 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041096a0
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