Dietary Minerals, Volume Homeostasis and Cardiovascular Regulation
edited by R. Rettig, D. Ganten, F.C. Luft.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1989
(xix, 363 pages 124 illustrations)
Electrolyte and Volume Homeostasis --;The Phylogeny of Salt Appetite --;Salt- and Volume-Regulating Systems --;Osmotically Activated Ion Channels in Membranes of Opossum Kidney Cells --;Cellular Mechanisms --;Na+ and K+ Transport in Human and Rat Erythrocytes: Features Complicating the Interpretation of Data --;Intracellular Cation Concentrations in the Pathogenesis of Essential Hypertension --;Intracellular Cation Homeostasis Impairment in Primary Hypertension --;Risks of Salt Depletion and Salt Excess --;The Neuronal Basis of Salt Sensitivity --;Neural Control of the Kidney in Hypertension --;New Aspects of Steroid Hormone Control: Role of Adrenal Renin --;Genetic Determinants of Salt Sensitivity --;Genetic Aspects of Blood Pressure Sensitivity to Sodium --;Augmented Reciprocal?-2 and?-2 Adrenoceptor Changes and Rise of Total Peripheral Resistance During Increase of Salt Intake in Salt-Sensitive Humans --;Inherited Bimodal Traits and Susceptibility to Hypertension in Utah Pedigrees --;Pathophysiological Significance of Different Types of Minerals --;Calcium Metabolism in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats --;Role of Calcium in Modulating Salt Sensitivity --;Calcium Metabolism and Arterial Pressure Regulation in Humans --;Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide-Like Immunoreactivity in Hypertension: Relation to Blood Pressure, Sodium, and Calcium Metabolism --;Importance of Dietary Sodium and Chloride for Salt Sensitive Hypertension --;Chloride as a Determinant of Salt-Sensitivity --;High Pottassium Diets During Hypertension Reduce Arterial Endothelial Injury, Stroke Mortality Rate, Arterial Hypertrophy, and Renal Lesions Without Lowering Blood Pressure --;Magnesium and Blood Pressure Regulation --;Role of Magnesium in Blood Pressure Regulation: A Review of Studies Performed in Animals --;Calcium Messenger System in Vascular Smooth Muscle --;Whole-Body Exchangeable Sodium in Cardiovascular and Endocrine Disorders --;Epidemiology of Salt Consumption and Intervention Trials --;Blood Pressure Responses to Acute Sodium Chloride Depletion in Healthy Young Adults: The Bourbon County Study --;Electrolyte Intake and Hypertension in Children --;Salt Consumption and Salt Intervention Studies in the German Democratic Republic --;Alteration of Sodium and Potassium Intake in the Treatment of Hypertension --;The Australian Sodium Potassium Study in Untreated Mild Hypertension --;The Salt Balance in Asia --;Dietary Electrolytes and Hypertension: An Epidemiologic Perspective --;International Symposium on Electrolytes, Volume Homeostasis and Hypertension: Panel Discussion.
Controversy regarding the wisdom of a high salt intake has been with us for 5000 years. The connection between dietary salt intake and hypertension was appreciated following the observations of AMBARD, BEAUJARD, VOLLHARD, ALLEN, and others.