ACE inhibitors /
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Basel ; Boston :
Birkhäuser Verlag,
c2001.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Milestones in drug therapy
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| Online Zugang: | Table of contents |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Machine generated contents note: List of contributorsVII
- PrefaceIX
- John R. Vane
- The history of inhibitors of angiotensin converting enzyme1
- Malika Lajemi and Athanase Benetos
- Genetics of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and risk
- of arterial disease11
- Paulus Wohlfart, Gabriele Wiemer, Wolfgang Linz and
- Bernward A. Scholkens
- Crosstalk between ACE inhibitors, B2 kinin receptor and nitric
- oxide in endothelial cells29
- Rob L. Hopfner, J. Robert McNeill and Venkat Gopalakrishnan
- Interactions between the ACE and the endothelin pathway37
- Maxime Lamarre-Cliche and Pierre Larochelle
- Evaluative and epidemiological approaches of ACE therapy47
- Irene Gavras and Haralambos Gavras
- The role of ACE inhibition in heart failure71
- Gdrard E. Plante and Tewfik Nawar
- Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition in the microcirculation81
- Michel E. Safar, Harry A.J. Struijker Boudier, Luc M.A.B. Van Bortel
- and Gdrard M. London
- Arterial structure and function and blockade of the renin-
- angiotensin system in hypertension105
- Albert Adam, Charles Blais, Jr. and Francois Marceau
- The contribution of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) to the
- metabolism of kinins (bradykinin and des-Arg9-bradykinin) and
- effect of ACE inhibitors on their in vitro and in vivo metabolism129
- Jacques de Champlain and Pedro D'Orleans-Juste
- Role of the renin-angiotensin system on the central and
- peripheral autonomic nervous system145
- Cynthia A. Fink
- Dual inhibitors of angiotensin converting enzyme and
- neutral endopeptidase155
- Stylianos E. Orfanos, Linhua Zou and John D. Catravas
- Pharmacodynamics, tissue-specificity of ACE inhibitors163
- Tewfik Nawar, Eve-Reine Gagne, Raymonde Turcotte and
- Gerard E. Plante
- Effect of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition on thirst
- and salt-appetite171
- Mark E. Cooper
- ACE and diabetes177
- Subject index185.