Sentences with phrase «angiotensin iv»

Harding, a medicinal chemist, and Wright, a neuroscientist, have been working on their compound since 1992, when they started looking at the impact of the peptide angiotensin IV on the hippocampus, a brain region involved in spatial learning and short - term memory.

Facilitation of Hippocampal Synaptogenesis and Spatial Memory by C - Terminal Truncated Nle1 - Angiotensin IV Analogs.

Typically, angiotensins have been linked to blood pressure regulation, but Harding and Wright noticed that angiotensin IV, or early drug candidates based on it, were capable of reversing learning deficits seen in many models of dementia.