Population
Cat middle cerebral arteries, cat basilar arteries, and rabbit basilar arteries
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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ACE appears key for AI-to-AII conversion but not BK degradation in cerebral vessels; leaves open relevance to human hypertension.
In cerebral vessels, angiotensin-converting enzyme appears crucial for converting angiotensin I to II, but not for the degradation of bradykinin.
Whalley et al. (1983) studied this question.
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