The Local Cardiac Renin-angiotensin Aldosterone System

Contributors.- Preface.? Hypertensive Heart Disease: Time for New Paradigms.? Cardiac (PRO) Renin Receptors: Functional Properties and Potential Significance.- On the Relationship Between the Renin Receptor and the Vacuolar Proton-ATPase Membrane Sector-Associated Protein (M8-9).- Role of the AT2Receptor in Cardiovascular Function: A Brief Synopsis.- Reciprocal Regulation of Renin in JGA and Tubules in Hypertension.- Salt Loading a Paradigm for a Local Cardiac Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System.- Lessons from Experimental Generation of Intracellular Angiotensinogen and AII.- On the Cardiac Renin Angiotensin System: The Heart as a Source of Angiotensin II.- The Hematopoietic System: A New Niche for the Renin-Angiotensin System.- Mechanical Signaling and the Cardiac Renin-Angiotensin.- Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2: A Critical Regulator of the Renin-Angiotensin System.- Dyslipidemia and Angiotensin II and Atherogenesis.- ACE Inhibitors Directly Activate Bradykinin B1Receptors to Release NO.- Remodeling in Hypertensive Heart Disease: Role of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System.- Cardiac Aldosterone Production: A Vascular Problem? Cellular Oxidative Stress, Aging and the Local RAS.- Index.