title: [The bioactivity of angiotensin II and the effects of related Chinese Herbs].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review the bioactivity of angiotensin II and the effects of Chinese herbs on it.
  
  
  METHODS
  The correlative documents published in recent years were summarized.
  
  
  RESULTS
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200032, China.
authors.forename: Yun-hui
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Chang-xun
authors.initials: CX
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000804:Angiotensin II / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D000806:Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000503:physiopathology; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015428:Myocardial Reperfusion Injury / Q000503:physiopathology; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000737:chemistry; D044139:Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 2 / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D000806:Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D044139:Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 2; D000804:Angiotensin II