How to Use angiotensin in a Sentence

angiotensin

noun
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  • In a healthy person, the ACE2 receptor chops up two forms of a protein called angiotensin to keep blood pressure stable, among other things.
    — Kate Sheridan, STAT, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The virus seems to attack the body by attaching to a binding receptor called angiotensin-converting enzyme-2, or ACE-2.
    — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The carcinogen is the same one that last year sparked a recall in about 30 countries of millions of blood-pressure pills called angiotensin II receptor blockers.
    — Anna Edneybloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2019
  • An example is reflected in the class of medicines that regulate the formation of angiotensin, a protein involved in the control of blood pressure.
    — Mark C. Fishman, STAT, 7 May 2018
  • Captopril, the first of a class of drugs for high blood pressure known as angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors was developed from a small protein in the venom of a Brazilian pit viper.
    — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The spike protein attaches to a receptor on human cells called angiotensin-converting enzyme 2.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 28 Apr. 2020
  • But there are obvious suspects, such as the gene coding for the cell surface protein angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), which the coronavirus uses to enter airway cells.
    — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The researchers found that the new coronavirus enters human lung cells using a receptor called angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2).
    — Jane Qiu, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Research has shown estrogen may have an effect on a protein known as angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), for example.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Until last week, concerns had mostly been limited to that class of hypertension drugs, known as angiotensin II receptor blockers.
    — Anna Edneybloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The ape form of the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptor that the new coronavirus uses to enter cells is identical to the human one, making it likely that apes can be infected, according to an 11 April preprint on bioRxiv.
    — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 1 May 2020
  • Over the next 15 years, investigations by several groups showed that renin itself did not affect blood vessels, but rather activated a blood protein called angiotensinogen, making angiotensin.
    — Mark C. Fishman, STAT, 7 May 2018

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