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Verlag	:	Springer Netherland
Buchreihe	:	Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine (Bd. 36)
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	23. 08. 2014
Seiten	:	346
Einband	:	Kartoniert
Höhe	:	235 mm
Breite	:	155 mm
Gewicht	:	551 g
ISBN	:	9789401090063
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

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I. The Preamble.- 1. The long slow road to progress: a lesson in humility.- 2. Sir George Pickering’s views on hypertension.- 3. Facts, interpretations and extrapolations on the mechanisms that cause arterial hypertension.- 4. The infinite gain principle for arterial pressure control by the kidney-volume-pressure system.- 5. Hypertension research: a viewpoint.- II. How Important is the Salt Intake?.- 6. Determinants of blood pressure in populations.- III. The Central Role of the Kidney.- 7. The mechanism of sodium-dependent low renin hypertension.- 8. Mill’s disease amongst medical specialists in hypertension.- IV. A Defect in Cell Membrane Permeability.- 9. Cell membrane permeability and hypertension.- 10. Is biomembrane abnormality a pathogenic factor or a genetic marker of hypertensive diseases?.- V. The Antihypertensive Hormones Of the Kidney.- 11. Hypertension induced by JG-like cells grown in tissue culture.- 12. The glandular kallikrein-kinin system in hypertension.- VI. The Role of the Central Nervous System: Mediation or Initiation?.- 13. The mechanism of hypertension — a personal view.- 14. Arterial baroreflexes in human beings.- 15. Possible mechanism of protection from renal hypertension by anteroventral third ventricle (AV3V) lesions: role of renal afferent nerves.- 16. Neuronal systems and their impact on blood pressure regulation.- 17. Brain catecholaminergic mechanisms and hypertension.- 18. Continuous intra-arterial blood pressure recording in human hypertension.- 19. Role of vasopressin in blood pressure regulation through its modulatory effect on baroreceptor reflex.- VII. Altered Hemodynamics: A Cause or a Consequence?.- 20. Controversies in the research on hemodynamic mechanisms in the development of hypertension.- 21. The role of the heart inhypertension.- 22. Structural change in the blood vessel wall: the fundamental self-perpetuating process in primary hypertension.- VIII. How is the Renin System Involved?.- 23. Is there a fault in the renin-angiotensin system in essential hypertension?.- 24. Biological significance of active and inactive renin in hypertensive patients.- 25. The relation of plasma renin substrate to blood pressure in essential hypertension.- 26. On renin substrate and hypertension: a hypothesis.

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