The Local Cardiac Renin Angiotensin-Aldosterone System

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Frohlich, Edward D. (Editor), Re, Richard N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Basic Science for the Cardiologist, 20
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.

How exciting it is to see a field so well established as the ren- angiotensin system continue to grow and mature. Originally, following the original identification of renin by Tigerstedt and Bergman over 100 years ago, workers in this area spent years attempting to establish its role in experimental...