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New Target For Maintaining Healthy Blood Pressure Discovered

sciencedaily.com — In trying to understand the role of prostaglandins – a family of fatty compounds key to the cardiovascular system – in blood pressure maintenance, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and colleagues discovered that mice that lack the receptor for one type of prostaglandin have lower blood pressure.

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  • asgardshill, on 04/25/2009, -0/+5I'd be ecstatic if they could find something that doesn't give me tachycardia like the ACE inhibitor I'm taking to treat my high BP does. Some days I feel like Wallenda on a tightrope - if I fall one way, I'll stroke out and if I fall the other way, I'll get an MI.
  • nzd9f1, on 04/26/2009, -0/+3Good concept, but mayhave other side effects in human when blocking the receptor.
  • skojic, on 04/25/2009, -1/+4Neat. Though, blocking this receptor would surely cause some unsual side effects. Lets see how this works out.
  • inactive, on 04/25/2009, -0/+2If blocking the receptor works, I wonder if they'll combine a blocker with a low dose of tylenol, which interferes with prostaglandin production.
  • fleyinberdy, on 05/24/2009, -0/+1Add a beta-blocker?
  • GeorgeTirebiter, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1All very clear right up to the words, " In trying to understand...".
  • aechavarren, on 04/26/2009, -0/+1Very clear picture of receptors, good technique
  • akchrs, on 04/25/2009, -3/+2"a family of fatty compounds"

    My neighbors.
  • VoteGOP, on 04/25/2009, -14/+1First

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