New Advances in SHR Research - Pathophysiology & Pharmacology

Preface -- Pathophysiological overview of M-SHRSP/H. Ito and T. Suzuki -- The development of hypertension in transgenic rats, TOR (mREN2)/J. Peters. D.Ganien wtdJ. I. Mullins -- Age-reled immunological disonlers in an animal model for hypertension. SHR rats/N. Takeichi -- Increased preduction of nitric oxide in cultured aortic smooth muscle cells from SHR/D. C. Junqvero and P. M. Vanhoune -- Comparative enzyme hisiochemistry of NADPH-diaphorasc (nitric oxide synthase) positive neurons in normal and spontaneously hypertensive rats/E. Adegisate D. J. Pallot and H. Panvez -- Role of central GABA in the regulation of blood pressure and the development of hypertension in the SHR/M. Van den Buuse and G. A. Head -- Altered cardiovascular responses to glutamate and acetyicholine niicroinjected into the nucleus tzactus solitarti of the SHR/W. T Talman and S. I. Lewis -- Central kinin receptors in the SHR and the presser response to bradykinin/C. J. Lindsey -- Role of muscarinic recepo.s in cardiovascular regulation in SHR/O.Chung and T.Unger -- Phosphatidylinositol and inositophosphatide metabolism in hypenzophied rat bean/H. Kawaguchi and A. Kitabatake -- Animal models of vascular dementia with emphasis on stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats/H. Saito. H. Togashi. M. Yoshioka, N. Nakamura, M. Minami and H.S Parvez -- Role of vitamin B 12 Ofl behavioral changes in SHRSP/M. Minami, S. Kinwra. K. Veno. T. Endo, Y. Monma, H. Togoshi, M. Matsumoto M. YoshioAa, H. Sailo and S.H. Parez -- Antihypettensive effects of onental drugs in human and SHR/H. Higashino, A. Suzuki and K. Komai 18 -- Cardiac and hemodynamic features in SHR/H. Osada and T. Tsutsumi -- Subject index.