Abstract:BackgroundAs the initiator of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone-system, renin plays an essential role in the vicious circle of heart failure. Therefore, renin was determined in the investigators driven ‘Labelling of Enalapril from neonates up to adolescents’ (LENA) study to evaluate its role in paediatric heart failure. Due to the often long-lasting periods of recruitment of paediatric subjects, the assay performance has to be guaranteed over the whole recruiting time. Therefore, to ensure the high quality of … Show more
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.