BNP is a peptide (a short chain of amino acids) your heart and blood vessels make. It works as a hormone. That means it sends messages through your blood to other cells or organs in your body. Your heart makes BNP normally. Your heart will make more of it when it's working harder ...
the result being an increase in blood volume. Perhaps the adaptation would lead to increased stroke volume from increased venous return, but that is not conjectured. However, at equilibrium, one would
Experiments were first conducted with protein C sensors where 2 nm SAMs gave the best enhancement, reaching 215% increase in fluorescence, meaning 1 nm was too close and 3 nm was too far. The NGP size was also tested for enhancement where 10 nm NGPs gave the best enhancement among 2, ...
As a cardiac hormone, BNP plays a key role in the regulation of blood pressure and fluid volume [19]. In the early days, BNP was discovered as a biomarker for the identification of congestive heart failure patients, and later studies revealed that high levels of BNP in cardiac tissues indic...