The Natriuretic Hormones

• Main Author: Vardaman M. Buckalew (auth)
• Other Authors: Harvey Craig Gonick (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Hypertension; Volume expansion; Natriuresis; Hypothalamus; hormone
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The title follows from the original demonstration by Dr. Hugh de Wardener in 1961 that a humoral agent is produced after extracellular volume expansion which results in a vigorous diuresis and natriuresis. Thus the name of "natriuretic hormone" was coined. In the years that followed severa...