Dialogues in Cardiovascular Medicine - Vol 12 . No. 3 . 2007



Hypertension: Cross-Talk Between
the Brain and Other Organs




C. John Dickinson




Cross-talk between the brain and other organs: is the brain to blame for hypertension?
J. F. Paton, M. K. Raizada




Hypertension, SNS overactivity, and the brain: how do they interact with peripheral organs and how do they impact psychological influences, stress, and target-organ damage?
M. D. Esler, E. A. Lambert


Sympathetic activation in hypertension: what are the effects on vascular, endothelial, and metabolic function?
G. Grassi


Hypertension, SNS overactivity, and the kidney: adverse consequences and therapeutic outlook
V. M. Campese, D. N. Bedwani, J. Park




Matters @ Heart: Music and medicine
R. J. Bing




P. G. Guyenet


Concerning a definitive regulatory mechanism of the vasomotor centre which controls blood pressure during cerebral compression
H. Cushing

Lowering of hypertension by central saralasin in the absence of plasma renin
M. I. Phillips and others

Sympathetic augmentation in hypertension: role of nerve firing, norepinephrine reuptake, and angiotensin neuromodulation
M. P. Schlaich and others

Junctional adhesion molecule-1 is upregulated in spontaneously hypertensive rats: evidence for a prohypertensive role within the brain stem
H. Waki and others

Unloading arterial baroreceptors causes neurogenic hypertension
T. N. Thrasher
Sympathoexcitatory neurons of rostral ventrolateral medulla exhibit pacemaker properties in the presence of a glutamatereceptor antagonist
M. K. Sun and others

Fulminant hypertension in transgenic rats harbouring the mouse Ren-2 gene
J. J. Mullins and others

Acute fulminating neurogenic hypertension produced by brainstem lesions in the rat
N. Doba, D. J. Reis

Fall in blood pressure produced from discrete regions of the ventral surface of the medulla by glycine and lesions
P. G. Guertzenstein, A. Silver

Baroreceptor inputs to the nucleus tractus solitarius in the cat: modulation by the hypothalamus
S. W. Miflin and others




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