TY - JOUR AU - Wayne Alexander AU - Kenneth E. Bernstein AU - Kevin J. Catt AU - Marc de Gasparo AU - Khuraijam Dhanachandra Singh AU - Satoru Eguchi AU - Emanuel Escher AU - Theodore L. Goodfriend AU - Mastgugu Horiuchi AU - László Hunyady AU - Ahsan Husain AU - Tadashi Inagami AU - Sadashiva Karnik AU - Jacqueline Kemp AU - Walter G. Thomas AU - Pieter B. M. W. M. Timmermans AU - Kalyan Tirupula AU - Hamiyet Unal AU - Thomas Unger AU - Patrick Vanderheyden PY - 2019/09/16 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Angiotensin receptors (version 2019.4) in the IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology Database JF - IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE JA - GtoPdb CITE VL - 2019 IS - 4 SE - Summaries DO - 10.2218/gtopdb/F6/2019.4 UR - http://journals.ed.ac.uk/gtopdb-cite/article/view/3160 AB - The actions of angiotensin II (Ang II) are mediated by AT1 and AT2 receptors (nomenclature as agreed by the NC-IUPHAR Subcommittee on Angiotensin receptors [61, 152]), which have around 30% sequence similarity. The decapeptide angiotensin I, the octapeptide angiotensin II and the heptapeptide angiotensin III are endogenous ligands. losartan, candesartan, telmisartan, etc. are clinically used AT1 receptor blockers. ER -