aDepartment of Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
bDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Correspondence to Theodore W. Kurtz, MD, UCSF Clinical Laboratories, 185 Berry Street, Suite 290, San Francisco, CA 94107, USATel: +1 415 353 1979; fax: +1 801 912 3103; e-mail: [email protected]
Abbreviations: ARB, angiotensin receptor blocker; AT1, angiotensin II type 1; BAEC, bovine aortic endothelial cell; BP, blood pressure; CHO, Chinese hamster ovary; DMSO, dimethyl sulfoxide; FBS, fetal bovine serum; HAVSMC, human aortic vascular smooth muscle cells; IBMX, 1-methyl-3-isobutylxanthine; LBD, ligand-binding domain; MAPK, mitogen-activated protein kinase; PPAR, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor
Received 18 July, 2011
Revised 19 August, 2011
Accepted 24 August, 2011
