title: ACE inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor antagonists in Crohn's disease management.
abstract: An increasing repertoire of therapeutic indications for the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor antagonists has followed an explosion of research exploring the role of the proinflammatory and profibrotic renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in numerous organ systems. This evidence also implicates the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in the pathogenesis of other chronic inflammatory and fibrotic disorders, such as Crohn's disease. While the research to date supports this hypothesis, further investigation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in human Crohn's disease is required before these agents can realistically be investigated in human trials.
authors.affiliation: Inflammatory Bowel Disease Laboratory, Royal Brisbane and Women's Research Foundation, Brisbane, Australia. georgiah@qimr.edu.au
authors.forename: Georgia E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Hume
authors.forename: Graham L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Radford-Smith
mesh_terms: D000804:Angiotensin II / Q000502:physiology; D047228:Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000806:Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000818:Animals; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D041981:Gastrointestinal Tract / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D012084:Renin-Angiotensin System / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D047228:Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers; D000806:Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; D000804:Angiotensin II