Hypertension: Mechanisms and Management

Sympathetic Nervous System and Hypertension.- Circulatory Neurohormones in Primary Hypertension: Probes in Etiology and Treatment.- Plasma Catecholamine Levels and the Renin-Angiotensin-System in Subjects with Borderline Hypertension.- Sympathetic Nervous Activity, Noradrenaline Reactivity, and Blood Pressure Control.- Cardiovascular Pressor Reactivity as Related to Plasma Catecholamines: Role in the Pathogenesis of Essential Hypertension and in the Antihypertensive Mechanism of Diuretic Treatment.- Blunting of Beta-Adrenoceptor-Mediated Cardiovascular Responses and Increasing Alpha-Receptor-Mediated Vasoconstriction: An Age-Dependent Transformation of Essential Hypertension.- Patterns of Noradrenaline and Renin in Essential Hypertension - Effects of Stress and Therapy.- Catecholamines, Isometric Exercise and Left Ventricular Function.- Plasma Noradrenaline as an Index of Sympathetic Activity.- Free Communications.- The Central Peptidergic Stimulation Syndrome: A Role for Brain Peptides in Central Mechanisms of Blood Pressure Regulation.- Glandular Adenylate Cyclase System in Genetic Hypertension - Age-Dependent Response to Catecholamines.- Effects of Somatostatin on Pressor Responsiveness to Angiotensin and Catecholamines in Essential Hypertension.- Acute Effects of Labetalol on Haemodynamics and Response to Emotional Stress in Hypertensive Patients.- Round Table Discussion: Does the Renin-Angiotensin System Play a Significant Role in Human Hypertension?.- Renal Hormones.- Renal Vasodepressor Hormones: The Kallikrein-Kinin and Prostaglandin Systems.- Plasma Kallikrein as an Activator of Inactive Renin ("Prorenin") - Studies In-Vitro and In-Vivo.- Urinary Kallikrein Activity in Rats with Renovascular Hypertension.- Enhanced Parotid Kallikrein Secretion inEssential, Adrenal Hypertension and in Advanced Renal Failure - Inverse Relationship to Sodium Excretion.- Identification of Angiotensin II- and Kinin-Dependent Mechanisms in Essential Hypertension.- Free Communications.- Interactions Between Angiotensin II and ACTH on the Human Adrenal Gland.- Disturbed Regulation of Aldosterone and Sodium Excretion in a Subgroup of Essential Hypertensives.- Studies on the Influence of Salt and Water Balance and Blood Pressure Regulation in Hypertensive Patients.- Hypertension and Public Health.- An Overview of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program in the United States.- Campaigns Against High Blood Pressure in Switzerland and the National Research Program 1 "Methodology of Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases".- Rundtisch-Gespräch: Möglichkeiten der Hypertonieintervention in Deutschland.