Cardiovascular Hormone Systems

Leaders in the field provide a comprehensive survey of cardiovascular endocrinology. Clearly structured, and with its coverage of all hormone systems, this is an essential reference for researchers working on the cardiovascular system and related diseases.

Ein umfassender Überblick über alle kardiovaskulären Hormonsysteme: Steroid- und Pepitdhormone, Amine, Arachidonsäure-Metaboliten, Nucleotide, Stickstoffmonoxid und Acetylcholin. Der Herausgeber des Bandes ist ein international anerkannter Endokrinologe, der selbst bereits mehr als 200 Originalarbeiten veröffentlicht hat.

Auteur
Michael Bader got his PhD in Biology at the University of Freiburg, Germany and his professorship in Pharmacology at the Charite, University Medicine Berlin, Germany. He is group leader at the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, where his research focusses on the functional analysis of cardiovascular hormones using molecular biological and transgenic animal technologies. He is in the Editorial Board of Hypertension and author of more than 200 publications.

Contenu
STEROID HORMONES Gluco- and Mineralocorticoids (Mullins) Sex Steroid Hormones (Regitz-Zagrosek) PEPTIDE HORMONES Angiotensins (Santos) Kinins (Pesquero) Natriuretic Peptides (Potter) Endothelins (Rossi) Adrenomedullin (Ruskoaho Apelin and Vasopressin (Llorens-Cortes) AMINES Serotonin (Bader) Adrenaline and Noradrenaline (Hein) Dopamine (Soares-da-Silva) Histamine (Tanner) ARACHIDONIC ACID METABOLITES Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes (Habenicht) Cytochrome P450-dependent Eicosanoids (Schunck) NUCLEOTIDES, NITRIC OXIDE, ACETYLCHOLINE Nucleotides (Jankowski) Nitric Oxide (Schini-Kerth) Acetylcholine (Irigoyen)