Renin Angiotensin System and the Heart

Preface.List of Contributors.1. Intracellular Signaling and the Cardiac Renin Angiotensin System (George W. Booz and Kenneth M. Baker).2. Cardiac Physiology and the Renin-Angiotensin System: Lessons from Transgenic Animal Models.(Alisdair Ryding and John J. Mullins).3. Prorenin Uptake in the Heart (A. H. Jan Danser).4. Role of Local Renin-angiotensin Systems in Cardiac Damage (Michael Bader).5. Cardiac Renin: De novo Synthesis and Uptake (Jorg Peters).6. The Cardiac Renin Receptors (Genevieve Nguyen, Celine Burckle and Benjamin Tremey).7. Angiotensin II AT2 Receptors and Cardiac Function (Jun Suzuki, Takanori Kanazawa, Masaru Iwai and Masatsugu Horiuch).8. The Heart; A Target for the Renin Angiotension System. Evidence of an intracrine system (Walmor C. De Mello).9. ACE2: Its Role in the Counter-Regulatory Response to Heart Failure (Lawrence S. Zisman).10. Wound Healing and the Tissue Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System (Yao Sun and Karl T. Weber).11. Trophic Effects of Aldosterone (Claude Delcayre, Christophe Heymes, Paul Milliez and Bernard Swynghedauw).12. Intracellular Angiotensin and the Actions of Intracrine Hormones (Richard N. Re).13. Angiotensin II and Myocardial Fibrosis, Clinical Implications (Begona Lopez, Arantxa Gonzalez and Javier Diez).14. Hypertensive Heart Disease: Significance of Renin Angiotensin System (Jasmina Varagic and Edward D Frohlich).Index.