Yasutaka Murata

ORCID: 0000-0001-7307-1043 · 1 paper in corpus

article 2002

Premenstrual Disappearance of Aminopeptidase A in Endometrial Stromal Cells around Endometrial Spiral Arteries/Arterioles during the Decidual Change

·doi:10.1210/jcem.87.5.8465

Aminopeptidase A (APA, BP-1) is a membrane-bound zinc metallopeptidase that converts angiotensin II (AngII) into AngIII by selectively hydrolyzing the N-terminal aspartyl residue. AngII has been proposed as a candidate for the initial vasoc…