Renin Angiotensin System and Cardiovascular Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: DeMello, Walmor C. (Editor), Frohlich, Edward D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2010.
• Series: Contemporary Cardiology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Angiology.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

The renin angiotensin system plays an essential role on cardiac and vascular functions and their connection in the generation of cardiovascular diseases. Renin Angiotensin System and Cardiovascular Disease covers indispensable aspects such as intracellular signaling, regulation of cell volume in the...

Table of Contents:

• Systemic Versus Local Renin Angiotensin Systems. An Overview
• Clinical Import of the Local Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone Systems
• Renin, Prorenin, and the (Pro)Renin Receptor
• Local Renin Angiotensin Systems in the Cardiovascular System
• Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System and Pathobiology of Hypertension
• AT1 Receptors, Angiotensin Receptor Blockade, and Clinical Hypertensive Disease
• Structural and Electrophysiological Remodeling of the Failing Heart
• Inhibiting the Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System in Patients with Heart Failure and Myocardial Infarction
• Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Treatment with Renin Angiotensin System Inhibition
• Angiotensin-(1-7), Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2, and New Components of the Renin Angiotensin System
• Kinin Receptors and ACE Inhibitors: An Interrelationship
• Kinins and Cardiovascular Disease
• CMS and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Bound Together by the Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System
• Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System and Cardiovascular Disease
• Renin Angiotensin System and Atherosclerosis
• Renin Angiotensin System and Aging.