ADRENOMEDULLIN IN
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
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ADRENOMEDULLIN IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
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TOSHIO NISHIKIMI
Department of Hypertension and Cardiorenal Medicine
Dokkyo University School of Medicine Tochigi, Japan
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Toshio Nishikimi, MD, PhD
Department of Hypertension and Cardiorenal Medicine Dokkyo University School of Medicine
Mibu, Tochigi Japan
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CONTENTS
Introduction Toshio Nishikimi
Chapter 1. Biochemistry of Adrenomedullin Kazuo Kitamura, Kenji Kangawa, and Tanenao Eto
Chapter 2. Adrenomedullin Receptor and Signal Transduction
Takanobu Yoshimoto and Yukio Hirata
17
Chapter 3. Adrenomedullin Gene
Toshihiko Ishimitsu, Kohju Tsukada, Junichi Minami, Hidehiko Ono, and Hiroaki Matsuoka
41
Chapter 4. Adrenomedullin Expression and Secretion
Naoto Minamino
61
Chapter 5. Biological Action of Adrenomedullin Takeshi Horio and Fumiki Yoshihara
83
Chapter 6. Circulating Adrenomedullin Toshio Nishikimi
105
Chapter 7. Role of Adrenomedullin in Cardiovascular Disease Johji Kato and Tanenao Eto
131
Chapter 8. Adrenomedullin as an Adipokine Kazuhiro Takahashi
155
Chapter 9. Adrenomedullin Knockout Mouse and Transgenic Mouse
Takayuki Shindo
167
Chapter 10. Pleiotropic Effect of Adrenomedullin:
Lessons from Pure Adrenomedullin Knockout Mouse
Tatsuo Shimosawa, Katsuyuki Ando, and Toshiro Fujita
175
Chapter 11. Therapeutic Application of Adrenomedullin
Toshio Nishikimi, Noritoshi Nagaya, Kenji Kangawa, and Hiroaki Matsuoka
187
Chapter 12. Therapeutic Potentials of
Adrenomedullin for Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension
Noritoshi Nagaya, Toshio Nishikimi, and Kenji Kangawa
199
Index 215
VI
Contributing Authors
Ando, Katsuyuki Eto, Tanenao
Department of Nephrology and First Department of Internal Endocrinology, University of Tokyo, Medicine, Miyazaki Medical Tokyo, Japan College, University of Miyazaki,
Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Japan.
Fujita, Toshiro Hirata, Yukio
Department of Nephrology and Department of Clinical and Endocrinology, University of Tokyo, Molecular Endocrinology, Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Medical and Dental University
Graduate School, Tokyo, Japan
Horio, Takeshi
Department of Medicine, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
Ishimitsu, Toshihiko
Department of Hypertension and Cardiorenal Medicine, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan
Kangawa, Kenji
Department of Biochemistry, National Cardiovascular Research Institute, Osaka, Japan
Kato, Johji
First Department of Internal Medicine, Miyazaki Medical College, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Japan.
Kitamura, Kazuo
First Department of Internal Medicine, Miyazaki Medical College, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Japan.
Matsuoka, Hiroaki
Department of Hypertension and
Cardiorenal Medicine, Dokkyo
University School of Medicine,
Tochigi, Japan
Minami, Junichi
Department of Hypertension and Cardiorenal Medicine, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan
Minamino, Naoto
Department of Pharmacology, National Cardiovascular Research Institute, Osaka, Japan
Nagaya, Noritoshi
Department of Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering, National Cardiovascular Research Institute, Osaka, Japan
Nishikimi, Toshio
Department of Hypertension and Cardiorenal Medicine, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan
Ono, Hidehiko
Department of Hypertension and Cardiorenal Medicine, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan
Shimosawa, Tatsuo
Department of Nephrology and Endocrinology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo,Japan
Shindo, Takayuki
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo,Japan
Takahashi, Kazuhiro
Department of Molecular Biology and Applied Physiology,Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Tsukada, Kohju
Department of Hypertension and Cardiorenal Medicine, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan
Yoshimoto, Takanobu Department of Clinical and Molecular Endocrinology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshihara, Fumiki
Department of Medicine, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
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