Salt and Hypertension

Detlev Ganten, geb. 1941, zählt zu den herausragenden Persönlichkeiten in der europäischen Forschungslandschaft. Er ist u.a. Gründungsdirektor des Max-Delbrück-Centrums für molekulare Medizin, Professor für Klinische Pharmakologie an der FU Berlin, Mitglied im Nationalen Ethikrat und Vizepräsident der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Electrolyte and Volume Homeostasis.- The Phylogeny of Salt Appetite.- Salt- and Volume-Regulating Systems.- Osmotically Activated Ion Channels in Membranes of Opossum Kidney Cells.- Cellular Mechanisms.- Na+ and K+ Transport in Human and Rat Erythrocytes: Features Complicating the Interpretation of Data.- Intracellular Cation Concentrations in the Pathogenesis of Essential Hypertension.- Intracellular Cation Homeostasis Impairment in Primary Hypertension.- Risks of Salt Depletion and Salt Excess.- The Neuronal Basis of Salt Sensitivity.- Neural Control of the Kidney in Hypertension.- New Aspects of Steroid Hormone Control: Role of Adrenal Renin.- Genetic Determinants of Salt Sensitivity.- Genetic Aspects of Blood Pressure Sensitivity to Sodium.- Augmented Reciprocal ?-2 and ?-2 Adrenoceptor Changes and Rise of Total Peripheral Resistance During Increase of Salt Intake in Salt-Sensitive Humans.- Inherited Bimodal Traits and Susceptibility to Hypertension in Utah Pedigrees.- Pathophysiological Significance of Different Types of Minerals.- Calcium Metabolism in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats.- Role of Calcium in Modulating Salt Sensitivity.- Calcium Metabolism and Arterial Pressure Regulation in Humans.- Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide-Like Immunoreactivity in Hypertension: Relation to Blood Pressure, Sodium, and Calcium Metabolism.- Importance of Dietary Sodium and Chloride for Salt Sensitive Hypertension.- Chloride as a Determinant of Salt-Sensitivity.- High Pottassium Diets During Hypertension Reduce Arterial Endothelial Injury, Stroke Mortality Rate, Arterial Hypertrophy, and Renal Lesions Without Lowering Blood Pressure.- Magnesium and Blood Pressure Regulation.- Role of Magnesium in Blood Pressure Regulation: A Review of Studies Performed in Animals.- CalciumMessenger System in Vascular Smooth Muscle.- Whole-Body Exchangeable Sodium in Cardiovascular and Endocrine Disorders.- Epidemiology of Salt Consumption and Intervention Trials.- Blood Pressure Responses to Acute Sodium Chloride Depletion in Healthy Young Adults: The Bourbon County Study.- Electrolyte Intake and Hypertension in Children.- Salt Consumption and Salt Intervention Studies in the German Democratic Republic.- Alteration of Sodium and Potassium Intake in the Treatment of Hypertension.- The Australian Sodium Potassium Study in Untreated Mild Hypertension.- The Salt Balance in Asia.- Dietary Electrolytes and Hypertension: An Epidemiologic Perspective.- International Symposium on Electrolytes, Volume Homeostasis and Hypertension: Panel Discussion.