New Target For Maintaining Healthy Blood Pressure Discovered
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 08:14
in Health & Medicine
In trying to understand the role of prostaglandins -- a family of fatty compounds key to the cardiovascular system -- in blood pressure maintenance, researchers discovered that mice that lack the receptor for one type of prostaglandin have lower blood pressure and less atherosclerosis than their non-mutant brethren.