hypertension

My Symposia Interview: Drugs and Devices - Novel Targets in Hypertension

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Luis Ruilope Michael Böhm in conversation with Frank Ruschitzka Drugs and Devices - Novel Targets in Hypertension

Stress and Hypertension

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Dr. Sanjay Kapur explains the relation between stress and hypertension.

Clinical Pearls in Men's Health.

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Dr. Beckman discusses his article appearing in the July 2010 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings commenting on three cases involving men's health.

Sodium Channels and Pain

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S. Waxman, MD, PhD. - Medical need for new analgesics is discussed by S. Waxman (Yale University) who evaluated the role of selective subtypes of sodium channels, particularly 1.7 and 1.8 subtypes, in the perception of pain. There is an unmet medical need for drugs to treat chronic pain and inhibitors of selective sodium channels are in development as novel analgesics.

Calcium Channels

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Dr. Catterall describes autoinhibitory control of cardiac L-type cardiac calcium channels by protein phosphorylation and macromolecular signaling as well as regulation of P/Q type calcium currents in neurons. His research suggests novel targets for drugs affecting cardiovascular or central nervous systems.

Is there preferential loss of aortic baroreceptor C-fibre activity during the development of atherosclerosis?

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Michael Turner shares his poster presentation at the Experimental Biology 2008 conference.

The exercise pressor reflex in hypertensive humans

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Mark Sausen shares his poster presentation at the Experimental Biology 2008 conference.

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