Frontiers in Research of the Renin-Angiotensin System on Human Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Leung, Po Sing (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Proteases in Biology and Disease ; 7
• Subjects: Medicine.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

Table of Contents:

• Role of ACE, ACE2 and Neprilysin in the Kidney
• ACE Inhibition in Heart Failure and Ischaemic Heart Disease
• Proteases of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Human Acute Pancreatitis
• The Renin-Angiotensin System in Pancreatic Stellate Cells: Implications in the Development and Progression of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
• Renin-Angiotensin System Proteases and the Cardiometabolic Syndrome: Pathophysiological, Clinical and Therapeutic Implications
• The Role of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Hepatic Fibrosis
• The Renin-Angiotensin System in the Breast
• Role of Local Renin-Angiotensin System in the Carotid Body and in Diseases
• Bone Homeostasis: An Emerging Role for the Renin-Angiotensin System
• The Renin-Angiotensin System and its Inhibitors in Human Cancers
• The Skeletal Muscle RAS in Health and Disease
• Local Angiotensin Generation and AT2 Receptor Activation
• ADAMs as Mediators of Angiotensin II Actions.