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Hormones and the Heart in Health and Disease (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
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Hormones and the Heart in Health and Disease (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
Series: Contemporary Endocrinology, 21
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The maintenance of arterial blood pressure and the distribution of
blood flow to the various organs of the body depends on the control
of the pumping action of the heart and of the resistance of the
vascular beds in the individual organs in accordance with their
metabolic needs. These controls are achieved through the integrated
actions of circulat ing hormones, humoral factors that are
synthesized and released in the heart and blood vessels, and the
autonomic nervous system. The heart, however, is not only the
target for the direct and indirect actions of a number of hormones
and humoral factors, it is also an endocrine organ in the
traditional sense, synthesizing and secreting into the circulation
chemical factors that act at distant sites. In this treatise,
Hormones and the Heart in Health and Disease, we interpret
"endocrinology" broadly and consider traditional hormones as well
as autocoids that are secreted by the heart or that act on it. In
this overview, the relevant chapters are indicated in parentheses.
The discovery of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP; atrial
natriuretic factor, ANF) in the 1980s indicated that the heart does
indeed function as an endocrine organ in the classic sense. ANP
(Chapter I) is synthesized in the heart and secreted into the
circulation for actions on the kidney, where it is a potent
natriuretic agent, and on the vasculature, where it causes
vasodilation. ANP can also affect myocardial contractility."
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