Shigeru Toda

ORCID: 0009-0001-0138-0696 · 1 paper in corpus

lab-animal 2002

Premenstrual disappearance of aminopeptidase A in endometrial stromal cells around endometrial spiral arteries/arterioles during the decidual change

The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·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…