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Human arteries form angiotensin II largely independent of ACE unlike rodents; leaves open CAGE relevance and rodent model translation to humans.
Using isolated arteries, we demonstrated a marked difference in the angiotensin II-forming systems between human and rodent vessels. In human arteries, only 30-40% of the conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II depended on the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), and the rest of the angiotensin II formation was ascribed to chymostatin-sensitive angiotensin II-generating enzyme (CAGE). On the contrary, angiotensin II formation in rodent arteries totally depended upon ACE, without any sign of CAGE involvement. Such a marked species-difference can be relevant to the reported difference between humans and rodents in the ACE inhibitor effects on the myointimal hyperplasia after intimai balloon injury.
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