| pubmed-article:2957027 | pubmed:abstractText | The atria produce several peptides that have natriuretic and vasoactive properties, collectively called atrial natriuretic factor. All these peptides share a single messenger ribonucleic acid, the amount of which greatly increases in the rat left ventricle when the latter is submitted to chronic volume overload. Using the molecular hybridization technique and a desoxyribonucleic acid probe complementary to the atrial natriuretic factor messenger ribonucleic acid, we now report that a very important increase in the amount of this messenger ribonucleic acid is also observed in rat ventricle at at the compensatory stage of a pressure overload induced cardiac hypertrophy. This result suggests that the pressure overload hypertrophied rat ventricle also has the potential to itself regulate it's loading conditions via the regulation of extracellular fluid volume and vascular resistance. | lld:pubmed |
