Cellular Aspects of Hypertension

Offers the comprehensive views of specialists in cellular research in hypertension. Converging work in the fields of clinical medicine and cellular biology is also covered in detail and topics include receptor occupancy, transmembrane signalling and intracellular messengers.

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Research on hypertension has taken great strides in the past decade. Advancing knowledge of ever subtler aspects of cell metabolism has shifted researchers' attention from whole organ to single cell function. This new approach may make it possible to trace the cellular abnormalities that underlie the development of hypertension. Specialists offer a comprehensive view of cellular research in hypertension in this book. The converging work in the fields of clinical medicine and cellular biology is reviewed in detail. The authors discuss how knowledge of molecular concepts such as receptor occupancy, transmembrane signalling and intracellular messengers could be translated into effective patient therapy in the future.