Functional Morphology of the Endocrine Heart

Embryology of the endocrine heart.- Morphological review: immunohistochemistry and ultrastructure of the endocrine heart.- Evidence for the existence of cardiac hormones in the conductive system of the mammalian heart.- Catecholamine-containing granules in cardiac chromaffin cells as compared with atrial granules.- Seasonal changes of the endocrine heart.- Storage and secretion of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) by cultured atrial and ventricular cells from the neonatal rat.- Combined quantitative morphological and biochemical study on atrial granules (AG).- Immunohistochemical evidence for a neurosecretory and neurotransmitter function of CDD/ANP-immunoreactive neurons in molluscs.- Dual distribution of cardiac hormones (CDD/ANP) in heart and brain of vertebrates.- Steroid hormones and the endocrine heart.- Biochemistry of cardiac hormones.- The physiological importance of Atrial Natriuretic Peptide.- Pharmacology of the cardiac endocrine system.- Sites of action of ANF as a circulating hormone.- Pathomorphology of the endocrine heart.- Endocrine heart in experimental cardiomyopathy.- Atrial natriuretic peptide in man.- The behaviour of CDD (cardiodilatin) during graded exerciseon a bicycle ergometre.- Plasma concentrations of atrial natriuretic peptide ?-h- ANP1-28) during exercise and relationship to hemodynamic parameters in man.- Plasma atrial natriuretic factor responses to opiates.- Atrial natriuretic peptide in term newborn infants.- Effect of ANP bolus injection on endocrine and renal regulation in patients with liver cirrhosis and ascites.- Atrial natriuretic peptide (?-h-ANP) in 157 children with congenital heart diseases.- Receptor binding of cardiac hormones to dog kidney with congestive heart failure.- Characterization of the ANF system in patientswith cirrhosis of the liver.- The effect of human atrial natriuretic peptide on renal and cardiovascular responses to insulin-induced hypoglycemia in healthy man.