Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF)
Atrial natriuretic factor in chronic obstructive lung disease with pulmonary hypertension Physiological correlates and response to peptide infusion
... of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) in patients with hypoxic pulmonary hypertension secondary to chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD), we infused synthetic alpha-human ANF in seven ...
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Dissociation of natriuresis and diuresis and heterogeneity of the effector system of atrial natriuretic factor in rats
... hypotensive, natriuretic, and diuretic actions of human atrial natriuretic factor-(99-126) (hANF) are accompanied by an elevation of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) in plasma and ...of ...
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Plasma levels of immunoreactive atrial natriuretic factor in healthy subjects and in patients with edema
... Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF), a recently sequenced cardiac peptide, has been shown to have potent natriuretic, diuretic, and vasodilating effects in several ...immunoreactive ...
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Pulmonary and urinary clearance of atrial natriuretic factor in acute congestive heart failure in dogs
... Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is a peptide hormone of cardiac origin elevated in acute congestive heart failure (CHF), which is degraded by the enzyme neutral endopeptidase ...of ANF ...
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Lung is an important source of atrial natriuretic factor in experimental cardiomyopathy
... hormone, atrial natriuretic factor (ANF), has been implicated in the maintenance of water and salt ...atria, ANF has been detected in low amounts in several tissues, including ...the ...
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Atrial natriuretic factor gene expression in ventricles of rats with spontaneous biventricular hypertrophy
... the atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) ...ventricular ANF mRNA and minimally detectable ANF transcripts in the right ...greater ANF mRNA concentration in the left ventricle ...
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Role of endogenous atrial natriuretic factor in acute congestive heart failure
... endogenous atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) in acute congestive heart failure ...increases atrial pressures and plasma ...in atrial pressure or plasma ...exogenous ANF ...
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Atrial natriuretic factor inhibits vasopressin stimulated osmotic water permeability in rat inner medullary collecting duct
... of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) ...whether ANF (rat ANF 1-28) affects either osmotic water permeability (Pf) or urea ...M), ANF (100 nM) significantly reduced Pf by an ...
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Failure of atrial natriuretic factor to increase with saline load in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and mild heart failure
... of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) to volume expansion is impaired in the early stages of dilated cardiomyopathy, the effects of saline load (SL; ...plasma ANF levels in N (from ...
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Characterization of the atrial natriuretic factor system in lungs of the toad Bufo paracnemis
... lung atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) may have an important physiological function in preventing edema in ...complete ANF system in the lungs of the toad Bufo ...lung ANF ...
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Clearance of atrial natriuretic factor by lung, liver, and kidney in human subjects and the dog
... of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) by lung, liver, and kidney from arteriovenous differences in plasma ANF and measured organ plasma ...plasma ANF concentrations in the pulmonary ...
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Renal mechanism of action of rat atrial natriuretic factor
... bicarbonaturia. Atrial natriuretic factor caused whole kidney glomerular filtration rate to increase from ...that atrial natriuretic factor increased filtration rate only in ...
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Atrial natriuretic factor in human blood
... of atrial tissue extract resolved multiple forms of ...of ANF were unequivocally elevated. The mean plasma ANF concentrations rose from the baseline ...plasma ANF, on the other hand, was found ...
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Administration of atrial natriuretic factor inhibits sodium coupled transport in proximal tubules
... Synthetic ANF peptide consisting of 26 amino acids, 4 micrograms/kg body wt/h, or vehicle in controls, was infused to surgically thyroparathyroidectomized anesthetized ...of ANF peptide increased FENa, ...
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Original Article Genetic and functional analysis of the GATA5 gene promoter in indirect inguinal hernia
... as atrial natriuretic factor (ANF), beta-myosin heavy chain and endothelin-1 gene is regulated by GATA5 alone, or GATA5 associated with other GATA factors (GATA4 and GATA6), p300 protein and ...
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Lmod2 piggyBac mutant mice exhibit dilated cardiomyopathy
... ANF: atrial natriuretic factor; BNP: brain natriuretic peptide; CHF: conges‑ tive heart failure; DCM: dilated cardiomyopathy; ECG: electrocardiography; EF: ejection fraction; EM: ...
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Interleukin 1 beta modulates the growth and phenotype of neonatal rat cardiac myocytes
... Mononuclear cell infiltration and local cytokine elaboration are hallmarks of inflammatory and immunologic heart diseases. To test the hypothesis that cytokines can modulate cardiac myocyte growth and phenotype, myocytes ...
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Divergent pathways mediate the induction of ANF transgenes in neonatal and hypertrophic ventricular myocardium
... mediate atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) induction in neonatal and hypertrophied adult ventricular myocardium, and to assess whether studies using an in vitro model system of hypertrophy have ...
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Inhibition of Na/H exchange in avian intestine by atrial natriuretic factor
... The effects of APIII and cGMP on cytosol calcium concentration, along with the evidence that prevention of the rise in intracellular calcium blocks APIII and cGMP's inhibitory effects on[r] ...
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Pressure independent cardiac hypertrophy in mice with cardiomyocyte restricted inactivation of the atrial natriuretic peptide receptor guanylyl cyclase A
... Cardiac hypertrophy is a common and often lethal complication of arterial hypertension. Atrial natri- uretic peptide (ANP) has been postulated to exert local antihypertrophic effects in the heart. Thus, a loss of ...
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