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Brief Reviews

Is the Relation of Systolic Blood Pressure to Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Continuous and Graded, or Are There Critical Values?

Editorial Commentaries

Reproducibility of BP Responses to Changes in Dietary Salt: Compelling Evidence for Universal Sodium Restriction?

Scientific Contributions

Individual Blood Pressure Responses to Changes in Salt Intake: Results From the DASH-Sodium Trial

Measures of Obesity Are Associated With Vascular Stiffness in Young and Older Adults

Serum Uric Acid and Plasma Norepinephrine Concentrations Predict Subsequent Weight Gain and Blood Pressure Elevation

Spontaneous Indices Are Inconsistent With Arterial Baroreflex Gain

Cardiovascular Responses Evoked by Leptin Acting on Neurons in the Ventromedial and Dorsomedial Hypothalamus

Endothelin-1 Gene LYS198ASN Polymorphism and Blood Pressure Reactivity

Genetic Variants of Angiotensin II Receptors and Cardiovascular Risk in Hypertension

Physiological Impact of Increased Expression of the AT₁ Angiotensin Receptor

Comprehensive Congenic Coverage Revealing Multiple Blood Pressure Quantitative Trait Loci on Dahl Rat Chromosome 10

Hypertension in the (mRen-2)27 Rat Is Not Explained by Enhanced Kinetics of Transgenic Ren-2 Renin

Relation Between Left Ventricular Midwall Function and Coronary Vasodilator Capacity in Arterial Hypertension

Hypertensive Retinal Vessel Wall Signs in a General Older Population: The Blue Mountains Eye Study

Important Role of Nitric Oxide in the Effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor Imidapril on Vascular Injury

5,6-Epoxyeicosatrienoic Acid Mediates the Enhanced Renal Vasodilation to Arachidonic Acid in the SHR

14,15-Epoxyeicosa-5(Z)-Enoic-mSI: A 14,15- and 5,6-EET Antagonist in Bovine Coronary Arteries

Aged Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats Exhibit a Selective Loss of EDHF-Mediated Relaxation in the Renal Artery

Insulin-Stimulated Hydrogen Peroxide Increases Guanylate Cyclase Activity in Vascular Smooth Muscle

Molecular Mechanisms of Inhibition of Vascular Growth by Angiotensin-(1-7)

11ß-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 2 in Mouse Aorta: Localization and Influence on Response to Glucocorticoids

Angiotensin II–NAD(P)H Oxidase–Stimulated Superoxide Modifies Tubulovascular Nitric Oxide Cross-Talk in Renal Outer Medulla

Downregulation of Renal CYP-Derived Eicosanoid Synthesis in Rats With Diet-Induced Hypertension

Angiotensin AT₂ Receptors Directly Stimulate Renal Nitric Oxide in Bradykinin B₂-Receptor–Null Mice

Beneficial Effects of Antioxidant Vitamins on the Stenotic Kidney

Organ-Specific Overexpression of Renal LAT2 and Enhanced Tubular L-DOPA Uptake Precede the Onset of Hypertension

Sampling Requirements for Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in the Diagnosis of Hypertension in Pregnancy

Hypertension Electronic Pages

Hypertension Online Only: October 2003

Letters to the Editor

Antioxidant Effect of Lercanidipine • Response

Abstracts From the Eighth Annual Meeting of the European Council for Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Research (ECCR)

Preface

Proceedings of the XVth Scientific Meeting of the Inter-American Society of Hypertension

Awards

New Investigator and Travel Awards

2003 IASH Lifetime Achievement Award

State of the Art Lectures

Hormone Replacement Therapy and Inflammation: Interactions in Cardiovascular Disease

Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors: Vascular and Cardiac Effects in Hypertension

Inhibitors of 20-HETE Formation Promote Salt-Sensitive Hypertension in Rats

Corrections

Correction for vol. 42, p. 136

Scientific Contributions, Part 2

Gene Transfer of eNOS to the Thick Ascending Limb of eNOS-KO Mice Restores the Effects of L-Arginine on NaCl Absorption

Effects of Exogenous Heme on Renal Function: Role of Heme Oxygenase and Cyclooxygenase

ß2 Adrenoceptor Functional Gene Variants, Obesity, and Blood Pressure Level Interactions in the General Population

N-Domain Angiotensin I-Converting Enzyme With 80 kDa as a Possible Genetic Marker of Hypertension

Contribution of Genetic Factors to Renal Lesions in the Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat

Role of Endogenous Angiotensin II on Glutamatergic Actions in the Rostral Ventrolateral Medulla in Goldblatt Hypertensive Rats

Recovery of High Blood Pressure After Chronic Lesions of the Commissural NTS in SHR

Blunted Fenfluramine-Evoked Prolactin Secretion in Hypertensive Rats

Sympathoexcitation by PVN-Injected Bicuculline Requires Activation of Excitatory Amino Acid Receptors

Responses to GABA_A Receptor Activation Are Altered in NTS Neurons Isolated From Renal-Wrap Hypertensive Rats

Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor- and Receptor- Activators Prevent Cardiac Fibrosis in Mineralocorticoid-Dependent Hypertension

Pregnant Rats With 5/6 Nephrectomy Have Normal Volume Expansion Despite Lower Renin and Kallikrein

Enhanced Renal Immunocytochemical Expression of ANG-(1-7) and ACE2 During Pregnancy

Role of Angiotensin II and Reactive Oxygen Species in Cyclosporine A–Dependent Hypertension

Attenuated Responses to Angiotensin II in Follitropin Receptor Knockout Mice, a Model of Menopause-Associated Hypertension

Reduced Endothelial Vascular Relaxation in Growth-Restricted Offspring of Pregnant Rats With Reduced Uterine Perfusion

Salt-Sensitive Hypertension After Exposure to Angiotensin Is Associated With Inability to Upregulate Renal Epoxygenases

Estrogen or the AT1 Antagonist Olmesartan Reverses the Development of Profound Hypertension in the Congenic mRen2.Lewis Rat

Perturbation of D₁ Dopamine and AT₁ Receptor Interaction in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

Salt Appetite and the Renin-Angiotensin System: Effect of Oxytocin Deficiency

Low-Dose Angiotensin II Enhances Pressor Responses Without Causing Sustained Hypertension

SR141716A-Sensitive Enhancement of ET-1 Hypotensive Effect by Chronic NOS Inhibition

Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Endothelin-Induced Hypertension

ET_A Receptor Blockade Decreases Vascular Superoxide Generation in DOCA-Salt Hypertension

Elastase-Induced Suppression of Endothelin-Mediated Ca²⁺ Entry Mechanisms of Vascular Contraction

Endothelin-A Receptors Mediate Renal Hemodynamic Effects of Exogenous Angiotensin II in Humans

Interactions Between Vasoconstrictors and Vasodilators in Regulating Hemodynamics of Distinct Vascular Beds

Role of COX-2 in the Enhanced Vasoconstrictor Effect of Arachidonic Acid in the Diabetic Rat Kidney

PPAR Inhibition of Cyclooxygenase-2, PGE₂ Synthase, and Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase in Cardiac Myocytes

Training-Induced, Pressure-Lowering Effect in SHR: Wide Effects on Circulatory Profile of Exercised and Nonexercised Muscles

Role of Crk-Associated Substrate in the Regulation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Contraction