The bioactivity of angiotensin II and the effects of related Chinese Herbs / 中国中药杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To review the bioactivity of angiotensin II and the effects of Chinese herbs on it.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>The correlative documents published in recent years were summarized.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>Angiotensin II plays an important role in the development of many diseases, such as hypertension, arteriosclerosis, myocardial lesion due to ischemia and reperfusion, cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis, dysfunction of fibrinolytic system, thrombosis, renal failure etc. Some Chinese herbs inhibit the actions of angiotensin II.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Further researches must be done to investigate the bioactivity of angiotensin II and the effects of Chinese herbs on preventing the body tissue from being impaired by it.</p>