Textbook of nephro-endocrinology

Physiology and regulation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system -- The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and the kidney -- The renin-angiotensin system and the heart -- Renin-angiotensin blockade : therapeutic agents -- Vasopressin in the kidney--historical aspects -- Molecular biology and gene regulation -- Vasopressin antagonists in physiology and disease -- Diabetes insipidus and syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone -- The cardiac natriuretic peptide system : linking the heart and kidney in cardiorenal homeostasis and therapeutics -- Aldosterone's mechanism of action : genomic and nongenomic signaling -- Erythropoietin : an historical overview of physiology, molecular biology, and gene regulation -- Erythropoiesis : the roles of erythropoietin and iron -- Development of recombinant erythropoietin and erythropoietin analogs -- Insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome in chronic renal disease -- Growth hormone -- Sexual dysfunction in men and women with chronic kidney disease -- Metabolic acidosis of chronic kidney disease -- Pregnancy and the kidney -- Vitamin D : molecular biology and gene regulation -- Clinical syndromes of vitamin d and phosphate dysregulation -- Molecular biology of renin and regulation of its gene -- Vitamin d and the kidney : introduction and historical perspective -- Extrahematopoietic actions of erythropoietin -- Regulation of aldosterone production -- Aldosterone and its cardiovascular effects -- Aldosterone : history and introduction -- Thyroid status in chronic renal failure patients -- Aldosterone/mineralocorticoid receptors and their renal effects : molecular biology and gene regulation -- The history of the renin-angiotensin system -- Molecular biology of parathyroid hormone -- Endocrine regulation of phosphate homeostasis."