Endothelin-2
"Endothelin-2" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A 21-amino acid peptide produced predominantly within the kidney and intestine, with smaller amounts produced in the myocardium, placenta, and uterus, but the cells of origin are not clear. Endothelin-2 has no unique physiologic functions, as compared with endothelin-1. (N Eng J Med 1995;333(6):356-63)
| Descriptor ID |
D019333
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.644.276.400.235 D12.776.467.400.235 D23.529.400.235
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