"Urotensins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Teleost hormones. A family of small peptides isolated from urophyses of bony fishes. They have many different physiological effects, including long-lasting hypotensive activity and have been proposed as antihypertensives. There are at least four different compounds: urotensin I, urotensin II, urotensin III, and urotensin IV.
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D014579
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D06.472.699.905 D12.644.548.905 D23.469.050.375.925
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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Urotensins" by people in Profiles.
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Urotensin-II contributes to pulmonary vasoconstriction in a perinatal model of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn secondary to meconium aspiration syndrome. Pediatr Res. 2010 Feb; 67(2):150-7.
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Urotensin II is raised in children with congenital heart disease. Heart. 2006 Jul; 92(7):983-4.