"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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| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Urotensins" by people in Profiles.
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Ames RS, Sarau HM, Chambers JK, Willette RN, Aiyar NV, Romanic AM, Louden CS, Foley JJ, Sauermelch CF, Coatney RW, Ao Z, Disa J, Holmes SD, Stadel JM, Martin JD, Liu WS, Glover GI, Wilson S, McNulty DE, Ellis CE, Elshourbagy NA, Shabon U, Trill JJ, Hay DW, Ohlstein EH, Bergsma DJ, Douglas SA. Human urotensin-II is a potent vasoconstrictor and agonist for the orphan receptor GPR14. Nature. 1999 Sep 16; 401(6750):282-6.