Kinins / / ed. by Michael Bader.

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• MitwirkendeR: Ahluwalia, Amrita,; Alhenc-Gelas, François,; Bader, Michael,; Bascands, Jean-Loup,; Bento, Allisson F.,; Bhoola, Kanti D.,; Buffin-Meyer, Bénédicte,; Calixto, João B.,; Campos, Maria M.,; Cicardi, Marco,; Cugno, Massimo,; Duchene, Johan,; Dutra, Rafael C.,; Ehrenfeld, Pamela,; Feener, Edward P.,; Figueroa, Carlos D.,; Girolami, Jean Pierre,; Herwald, Heiko,; Kakoki, Masao,; Kita, Takeshi,; Klein, Julie,; Kleinschnitz, Christoph,; Kränkel, Nicolle,; Leeb-Lundberg, L. M. Fredrik,; Madeddu, Paolo,; Marceau, François,; Marcon, Rodrigo,; Matus, Carola E.,; Monsees, Thomas,; Noda, Mami,; Pesquero, João B.,; Potempa, Jan,; Renné, Thomas,; Sales, Vicencia M. T.,; Schanstra, Joost P.,; Scharfstein, Julio,; Smithies, Oliver,; Spillmann, Frank,; Svensjö, Erik,; Tschöpe, Carsten,; Turaça, Lauro T.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bader, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (370 p.)

This handbook of kinin biology and biochemistry covers the current knowledge of kinins, a family of peptides involved in numerous physiological and pathophysiological processes. Recent publications have shown that the kinin system is highly relevant in a variety of disease states such as diabetes, m...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contributors
• Contents
• 1 Kinins: History and outlook
• 2 Molecular and genetic aspects of the kallikrein-kinin system
• 3 Kinin receptor signaling and regulation
• 4 Animal models in the kinin fi eld
• 5 Drugs in the kallikrein-kinin system
• 6 Kallikrein-kinin system in the brain
• 7 The role of the renal kallikrein-kinin system in physiology and pathology
• 8 Kallikrein-kinin system in the heart
• 9 Kallikrein-kinin system in the vessel wall
• 10 Kallikreins and kinin receptors: Modulators of skin homeostasis
• 11 Kallikrein-kinin system in the eye
• 12 Kallikrein-kinin system in reproductive organs
• 13 The kallikrein-kinin system and thrombosis
• 14 Kinins: kallikreins and kinins in cancer
• 15 Kallikrein-kinin system in pain
• 16 Kallikrein-kinin system in infl ammation
• 17 Kallikrein-kinin system in diabetes
• 18 Kallikrein-kinin system in angioedema
• 19 Kinins in bacterial infections
• 20 The kallikrein-kinin system in parasitic infections
• 21 Kallikrein-kinin system in ischemic stroke and brain trauma
• Index