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Edited by a renowned scientist in the field with more than 200 high profile scientific publications to his name, this is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of all cardiovascular hormone systems. Clearly structured, the text covers steroid and peptide hormones, amines, and arachidonic acid metabolites, as well as such others as nucleotides, nitric oxide, and acetylcholine. An essential reference for researchers working on the cardiovascular system and related diseases.
Sommario
STEROID HORMONESGluco- and Mineralocorticoids (Mullins)Sex Steroid Hormones (Regitz-Zagrosek)PEPTIDE HORMONESAngiotensins (Santos)Kinins (Pesquero)Natriuretic Peptides (Potter)Endothelins (Rossi)Adrenomedullin (RuskoahoApelin and Vasopressin (Llorens-Cortes)AMINESSerotonin (Bader)Adrenaline and Noradrenaline (Hein)Dopamine (Soares-da-Silva)Histamine (Tanner)ARACHIDONIC ACID METABOLITESProstaglandins and Leukotrienes (Habenicht)Cytochrome P450-dependent Eicosanoids (Schunck)NUCLEOTIDES, NITRIC OXIDE, ACETYLCHOLINENucleotides (Jankowski)Nitric Oxide (Schini-Kerth)Acetylcholine (Irigoyen)
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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.
Riassunto
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.
