Dr Ashenafi Betrie

Research Officer, Melbourne Dementia Research Centre, The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health; Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutic, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

Health & Medicine

An unexpected find opens a new way to regulate blood pressure

In what could be a new pathway for drug therapies to treat hypertension, a team of brain researchers have discovered that zinc plays a key role in lowering blood pressure

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