ANP

ANP (plural ANPs)

1. (biochemistry) Initialism of atrial natriuretic peptide.
   • 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:

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

2. Initialism of applied nutrition programme.
   • 1995, E. Muehlhoff; F. Simmersbach; P. Baron; F. Egal, “Alleviating malnutrition in communities”, in J.L. Albert, editor, Food, Nutrition and Agriculture‎, Food and Agriculture Organization, archived from the original on 2022-12-22:

     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

• (natriuretic peptides): BNP, CNP, DNP

• -nap, NAP, NPA, PAN, PNA, Pan, Pan., nap, pan, pan-

ANP m (plural ANP)

1. PNA