The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

 


Volume 65 Number 2
March 1998


Theme Issue - THE RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM AND TARGET ORGAN DAMAGE IN HYPERTENSION
Clive Rosendorff and Steven A. Atlas, guest editors

Introduction: The Renin-Angiotensin System - from Tigerstedt to 81
Goldblatt to ACE Inhibition and Beyond
Steven A. Atlas and Clive Rosendorff
The Renin-Angiotensin System Revisited: Classical and 87
NonClassical Pathways of Angiotensin Formation Steven A. Atlas
Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Hypertension: Etiology, 97
Treatment and Controversies
Robert A. Phillips, Joseph A. Diamond and Ali Gharavi
Angiotensin II and Cardiac Remodeling 104
Willa A. Hseuh, Yung S. Do and Raju Jeyaseelan
Vascular Hypertrophy in Hypertension: 108
Role of the Renin-Angiotensin System Clive Rosendorff
The Renin-Angiotensin System as a Mediator of Renal Injury in Hypertension 118
Willa A. Hseuh, Yung S. Do and Raju Jeyaseelan
Preventing and Reversing Target Organ Damage by Treatment 125
of the Renin-Angiotensin System
Lawrence R. Krakoff and Vinutha Rajasekharaiah
DEAN'S SEMINAR 133
Antagonizing Excitotoxicity: A Therapeutic Strategy for Stroke?
Dennis Choi

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Immunoglobulin and IgG Subclass Levels in the African American 139
and Hispanic Population of East Harlem Moshe Lewis, Michelle Miyashiro,
Jennifer Huton, Lorraine Miller, and Kirk Sperber
Amaranthin Lectin Binding in the Rat Colon: 146
Responses to Dietary Manipulation Evren O. Atillasoy,
Anargyros Kapetanakis, Steven H. Itzkowitz, and Peter H. Holt
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS 154
In Sickness and in Health Christine K. Cassel

DERMATOLOGY NOTES
Reacting Perforating Collagenosis Mark Lebwohl and Stephen Kurtin 158


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