1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465720903321

Titolo

Hypertension and bone loss [[electronic resource] /] / Afrooz Afghani, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, 2011

ISBN

1-61761-400-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (106 p.)

Collana

Aging issues, health and financial alternatives

Cardiology research and clinical developments

Altri autori (Persone)

AfghaniAfrooz

Disciplina

616.7/16

Soggetti

Osteoporosis

Hypertension - Etiology

Osteoporosis - Etiology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Nova biomedical."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The renin-angiotensin system and osteoporosis / Jose Luis Perez-Castrillon, Daniel de Luis, Antonio Duenas-Laita -- Bone mineral density in men and women with essential hypertension / Kazushi Tsuda -- Inverse relationship between blood pressure and bone mineral content in overweight Hispanic women / Afrooz Afghani -- Bone mass and bone remodelling markers in hypertensive postmenopausal women on thiazide diuretics : the Camargo cohort study / Jose M. Olmos ... [et al.] -- Unexpected link between hypertension and osteoporosis / Hideo Shimizu ... [et al.].



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910144654903321

Titolo

Brush border membranes [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Pitman, c1983

ISBN

1-280-78402-4

9786613694416

0-470-72076-X

0-470-71846-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; v. 95

Altri autori (Persone)

PorterRuth

CollinsGeralyn M

Disciplina

611.0181

611/.0181

Soggetti

Cell membranes

Cell physiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Editors: Ruth Porter (Organizer) and Geralyn M. Collins.

Proceedings of Symposium on: Brush border membranes held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 8-10 June 1982.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Brush border membranes; Contents; Chairman's introduction; Introductory remarks on the brush border; Microvillar endopeptidase, an enzyme with special topological features and a wide distribution; Discussion; Aminopeptidases and proteolipids of intestinal brush border; Discussion; Structure of microvillar enzymes in different phases of their life cycles; Discussion; Specific labelling of the hydrophobic domain of rat renal y-glutamyl transferase; Discussion; Biosynthesis and assembly of the largest and major intrinsic polypeptide of the small intestinal brush borders; Discussion

Use of monoclonal antibodies in the study of intestinal structure and function Discussion; Biosynthesis and transport of plasma membrane glyco- proteins in the rat intestinal epithelial cell: studies with sucrase- isomaltase; Discussion; GENERAL DISCUSSION I Biosynthesis and assembly of brush border proteins: (i) some co-translational models for protein insertion into membranes; molecular sizes of brush border enzymes during assembly; Distribution of enteropeptidase and



aminopeptidase to non-brush border sites; General functions of the enterocyte

Molecular architecture of the microvillus cytoskeleton Discussion; Structure of human placental microvilli; Discussion; Regulation of cytoskeletal structure and contractility in the brush border; Discussion; Characterization of membrane glycoproteins involved in attachment of microfilaments to the microvillar membrane; Discussion; Structural and functional relationship between the membrane and the cytoskeleton in brush border microvilli; Discussion; GENERAL DISCUSSION II A pathological condition due to congenital disorganization of the brush border

Conformational changes in the a-subunit, and cation transport by Na+, K+-ATPase Discussion; Properties of immunoglobulin G-Fc receptors from neonatal rat intestinal brush borders; Immunoglobulin G receptors of intestinal brush borders from neonatal rats; Discussion after the preceding two papers; Cotransport systems in the brush border membrane of the human placenta; Discussion; GENERAL DISCUSSION III Cytoskeleton and membrane-cytoskeleton interactions; The importance of structure for understanding the biosynthetic process; Future advances in study of brush border cytoskeleton

Photo-affinity labeling to identify components of the neutral amino acid carrier in the intestinal microvillar membrane Chairman's closing remarks; Index to contributors; Subject index