American scientists have found that in mice that have few receptors for one of the prostaglandins, the blood pressure level and the degree of atherosclerotic vascular lesion are lower than in normal mice, according to the Internet publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. net Prostaglandins are a special class of physiologically active substances involved in inflammatory, painful and many other reactions of the human body and animals. Researchers from the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania studied the effect of prostaglandins of type F2? on the level of arterial pressure and the development of atherosclerosis in rodents.

In the course of their work, they raised a generation of mice that lacked genes that encode receptors to the prostaglandin and to low-density lipoproteins. Such animals were unable to react to prostaglandins of the type F2?.

As a result of the study, the scientists found out that in these mice the level of arterial pressure, as well as the scale and degree of atherosclerotic vascular lesion, were lower than that of their common cousins.

According to the head of the experiment Garret FitzGerald (Garret FitzGerald), the blockade of receptors to prostaglandin type F2? allows you to monitor blood pressure and can be one of the ways to prevent vascular lesions.

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