Volume 5, Supplement A March 2008

Selected Proceedings of the APS Conference on Sex and Gender in Cardiovascular-Renal Physiology and Pathophysiology

• Introduction

  Jane F. Reckelhoff, Guest Editor

• Gender and Human Chronic Renal Disease

  Sharon Silbiger and Joel Neugarten

• Estrogen Receptors in the Kidney: Lessons from Genetically Altered Mice

  Pascale H. Lane

• Need for Research on Estrogen Receptor Function: Importance for Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy and Atherosclerosis

  Matthias R. Meyer, Elvira Haas, and Matthias Barton

• Genetic and Pharmacologic Strategies to Determine the Function of Estrogen Receptor α and Estrogen Receptor β in the Cardiovascular System

  Paula Anahi Arias-Loza, Virginija Jazbutyte, and Theo Pelzer

• Sex Steroids and Vascular Responses in Hypertension and Aging

  Xiaoying Qiao, Kristi R. McConnell, and Raouf A. Khalil

• Differential Effects of Sex Steroids in Young and Aged Female mRen2.Lewis Rats: A Model of Estrogen and Salt-Sensitive Hypertension

  Mark C. Chappell, Brian M. Westwood, and Liliya M. Yamaleyeva

• Effects of Botanical Dietary Supplements on Cardiovascular, Cognitive, and Metabolic Function in Males and Females

  Scott Carlson, Ning Peng, Jeevan K. Prasain, and J. Michael Wyss

• Estrogen, Inflammation, and Platelet Phenotype

  Virginia M. Miller, Muthuvel Jayachandran, Kazumori Hashimoto, John A. Heit, and Whyte G. Owen

• Estrogens and the Diabetic Kidney

  Christine Maric and Shannon Sullivan

• Androgens Stimulate Proximal Tubule Transport

  Raymond Quigley

• Sex Differences in the Fetal Programming of Hypertension

  Daniela Grigore, Norma B. Ojeda, and Barbara T. Alexander

• Pathophysiology of Hypertension in Response to Placental Ischemia During Pregnancy: A Central Role for Endothelin?

  Babbette D. LaMarca, Barbara T. Alexander, Jeffery S. Gilbert, Michael J. Ryan, Mona Sedeek, Sydney R. Murphy, and Joey P. Granger