[However, ACE2 generates angiotensin 1-7, which may protect the kidney by attenuating the effects of angiotensin II, since deletion of the Ace2 gene leads to glomerulosclerosis in mice, and pharmacologic inhibition of ACE2 exacerbates experimental diabetic nephropathy.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE