ANP

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A form of atrial natriuretic peptide — A strong vasodilatory, peptide hormone, secreted by the cardiac muscle cells.

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nounANP (countable and uncountable, plural ANPs)

plural ANPs

  1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebiochemistryInitialism of atrial natriuretic peptide.

    Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) (55) and insulin-like growth factor (56) have demonstrated no improvement in renal failure rates.

    2011, Pauline K. Park, “Assessment of Noncardiac Perioperative Risk”, in Michael W. Mulholland, Gerard M. Doherty, editors, Complications in Surgery, 2nd edition, Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 85
  2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of applied nutrition programme.

    The Applied Nutrition Programme (ANP) aimed to educate rural families to grow and use the foods needed to improve their diets, especially the diets of mothers and children

    1995, E. Muehlhoff with F. Simmersbach, P. Baron, and F. Egal, “Alleviating malnutrition in communities”, in J.L. Albert, editor, Food, Nutrition and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2022

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