Immune mechanisms of hypertension /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael, California (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool,
2013.
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| Series: | Colloquium digital library of life sciences.
Colloquium series on integrated systems physiology ; # 46. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Abstract: | In the vast majority of patients, hypertension has no identifiable cause. Moreover, despite decades of discovery and therapeutic development, approximately only half of the hypertensive patients are achieving clinically recommended blood pressure control. For these reasons, there has been continued interest in studying the factors that underlie the pathogenesis of hypertension. One area of research that has garnered significant attention is the potential link between immune system activation and blood pressure. Several lines of evidence, dating back several decades, support the concept for this association. This monograph gives a history of the early studies linking immune system function with hypertension and an overview of the large number of studies published in the past decade. The major focus is on the components of the innate and adaptive immune systems for which there is considerable evidence of their contributions to blood pressure control. |
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| Item Description: | Part of: Colloquium digital library of life sciences. Series from website. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 77 pages) : illustrations. Also available in printing. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-76). |
| ISBN: | 9781615045839 |
| ISSN: | 2154-5626 ; |
| DOI: | 10.4199/C00092ED1V01Y201309ISP046 |
| Access: | Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers. |