Yah, I always wondered why they called it
Posted By: ditto on 2005-08-25
In Reply to: The natriuretic peptides are produced by the heart. See inside. - Spice
Subject: Yah, I always wondered why they called it
brain natriuretic peptide (BNP, B-type) when it was for the heart, but nobody could ever explain it to me. Since I don't do that specialty and never had to spell it out, I wasn't too worried about it.
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