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During this symposium on “Angiotensin and the Heart”, an appraisal of the present experimental and clinical evidence for the existence and function of the cardiac renin-angiotensin system has been made. It is now accepted that the renin-angiotensin system originally detected as a classical humoral system, which secretes active molecules from a gland reaching their receptors of a target organ via the blood, may also reside in many tissues, especially in organs involved in cardiovascular regulation like the heart and vessels (Tigerstedt and Bergman, 1897; Dzau, 1990).
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Grobecker, H. (1993). Basic aspects. In: Grobecker, H., Heusch, G., Strauer, B.E. (eds) Angiotensin and the Heart. Steinkopff. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72497-8_15
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