Double duty: Loss of protective heart failure protein causes high blood pressure
Monday, May 5, 2008 - 14:49
in Health & Medicine
Scientists at the Center for Translational Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have found that a protein that appears to have protective and perhaps healing effects for failing hearts also plays a similar role in high blood pressure. They found lower-than-normal levels of the protein S100A1 in cells that line blood vessel walls in animals with high blood pressure.