Tissue Renin-Angiotensin Systems

Section A Frontiers in Reproductive Physiology.- 1. The Mammalian Pineal Gland and Reproduction: Controversies and Strategies for Future Research.- 2. Neuroendocrine Control of Reproduction.- 3. Endocrine, Paracrine and Autocrine Regulation of Testicular Steroidogenesis.- 4. Gonadotrophin Control of Testicular Germ Cell Development.- 5. Current Aspects of Autocrine and Paracrine Regulation of Spermatogenesis.- 6. Role of the Epididymis in Mediating Changes in the Male Gamete during Maturation.- 7. Ovarian Follicular Growth, Ovulation and Atresia: Endocrine, Paracrine and Autocrine Regulation.- 8. Ovulation as a Tissue Remodelling Process: Proteolysis and Cumulus Expansion.- Section B Prorenin-Renin-Angiotensin System: Novel Aspects and Recent Advances.- 9. Biochemistry and Cell Biology of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme and Converting Enzyme Inhibitors.- 10. Angiotensin II Receptors: Structural and Functional Considerations.- 11. The Angiotensin Type 1 and Type 2 Receptor Families: Siblings or Cousins?.- 12. Angiotensin II in Cell Growth and Matrix Production.- 13. Angiotensin as a Renal Growth Promoting Factor.- 14. The Adrenal Renin/Angiotensin System.- 15. The Tissue Renin-Angiotensin System in the Female Reproductive Tissues: A Review.- 16. Relevance of the Tissue Prorenin-Renin-Angiotensin System to Male Reproductive Physiology.- Section C Proceedings of the Symposium on Tissue Prorenin-Renin-Angiotensin Systems: Local Regulatory Actions in Reproductive and Endocrine Organs Hamburg, Germany, July 1–16, 1994.- 17. Role of the Cardiac Renin-Angiotensin System in Human Heart Failure.- 18. Transcriptional Silencer in Intron I of the Rat Renin Gene.- 19. In Field-Stimulated Guinea-Pig Atria an AT1-Receptor Mediated Increase of Noradrenaline Release by Angiotensin II IsSeen only in the Presence of Prejunctional Autoinhibition.- 20. Association between the Renin Angiotensin System and Anaphylaxis.- 21. Cloning, Expression and Regulation of Angiotensin II Receptors.- 22. The Relationship between the Adrenal Tissue Renin-Angiotensin System, Internalization of the Type I Angiotensin II Receptor (AT1) and Angiotensin II Function in the Rat Adrenal Zona Glomerulosa Cell.- 23. AT1 Receptors and Angiotensin Actions in the Brain and Neuronal Cultures of Normotensive and Hypertensive Rats.- 24. Angiotensin Peptides in the Brain.- 25. Brain Angiotensin and the Female Reproductive Cycle.- 26. Is Estrogen-Induced Pituitary Hyperplasia and Hyperprolactinaemia Mediated by Angiotensin II?.- 27. The Ovarian Renin-Angiotensin System: A Paracrine-Intracrine Regulator of Ovarian Function.- 28. The Pathophysiology of Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS): A Proposal Role of the Ovarian Derived Prorenin to Angiotensin Cascade (ODPAC).- 29. Paracrine Regulation of the Bovine Ovarian Prorenin-Renin-Angiotensin-System.- 30. Regulation of Angiotensin II Receptor Expression in Ovarian Follicles: A Review.- 31. Regulation of Utero-Placental Prorenin.- 32. The Choriodecidual Renin Controversy Revisited.- 33. Coda: Tissue Renin-Angiotensin Systems, 1994.