Cellular Aspects of Hypertension

I: Function and Structure of Vascular Tissue.- Structure and Function of Resistance Vessels in Hypertension.- Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell in Hypertension: Dissecting Out Cause and Effect.- Cellular Mechanisms of Spontaneous Hypertension and Stroke: Role of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells.- Hypertrophic Growth of Vascular Smooth Muscle.- Biomechanical and Electrical Responses of Normal and Hypertensive Veins to Short-Term Pressure Increases.- II: Calcium and Circulatory Control.- Dysfunction of Ca2+-pump of Vascular Muscle Membranes: An Important Etiological Factor in Hypertension.- Changes in Ca2+ and Ca2+ Sensitivity During Contraction-Relaxation of Arterial Muscle.- Superficial Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Regulates Activated and Steady-State Cytosolic Ca2+ Concentrations in Vascular Smooth Muscle.- Subsarcolemmal Increase in Intracellular Ca2+ in Vascular Muscle Cells from Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats.- Pathogenesis of Essential Hypertension: The Sodium Pump Inhibitor (Natriuretic Hormone) - Sodium/Calcium Exchange - Hypertension Hypothesis.- Calcium Metabolism and Its Relationship to Blood Pressure in Humans.- Parathyroids, Hypertension, and Vascular Reactivity.- Protection Against Hypertensive Cardiovascular Damage by Dihydropyridine Calcium Antagonists.- Nifedipine and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells in Atherogenesis: In Vivo and In Vitro Studies.- Sodium/Calcium Exchange in Cultured Human Mesangial Cells.- III: Membrane Abnormalities: Blood Cell Models.- Relation of Cell Permeability to Salt Sensitivity in Hypertension.- RFLP Study of the SHR Genome in Relation to Cell Membrane Abnormalities.- Regulation on the Na+/H+ Exchanger in Essential Hypertension: Functional and Genetic Abnormalities.- Regulation of the Na+/H+ Exchanger by Protein Kinase C and Its Implications in Hypertension: The Platelet Model.- Phosphoinositide Metabolism in Hypertension.- Lymphocyte Membrane Abnormalities in Hypertension.- Structural and Functional Alterations of Platelet Membrane in Essential Hypertension.- Platelet Abnormalities in Human Hypertension.- Aldosterone Receptors and Effector Mechanisms in Mononuclear Leukocytes in Different Forms of Hypertension.- Role of Adrenergic Receptors in Essential Hypertension.- Na+, K+, CL? Cotransport System in Primary Hypertension: Studies in Red Cells and in the Choroid Plexus of Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats.