Bradykinin
From Vasodilation to Neuroinflammation
- 1st Edition - May 5, 2025
- Editor: Réjean Couture
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 8 9 0 7 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 8 9 0 8 - 8
Bradykinin: From Vasodilation to Neuroinflammation is a complete guide to this multi-functional peptide, and its impact across the human body. Early chapters provide an overvi… Read more
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- Investigates bradykinin across various conditions, including cardiovascular and renal disease, heart failure, diabetes and cancer
- Discusses bradykinin receptors and their signalling pathways
2. Biosynthesis and metabolism of bradykinin
3. Bradykinin receptors and their signalling pathways
4. Animal models for studying bradykinin receptors
5. Peptide and non-peptide ligands acting at bradykinin receptors
6. Bradykinin in angioedema
7. Bradykinin and its receptors in inflammation
8. Bradykinin in Pain
9. Bradykinin in cardiovascular and renal diseases
10. Bradykinin in hypertension and heart failure
11. Bradykinin and its receptors in neovascularisation
12. Bradykinin in diabetes and obesity
13. Bradykinin in ocular diseases
14. Bradykinin agonists as a mean to increase blood-brain barrier permeability
15. Bradykinin as a central mediator
16. Bradykinin in infectious and parasitic diseases
17. Bradykinin in cancer
- No. of pages: 400
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 5, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443289071
- eBook ISBN: 9780443289088
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Réjean Couture
Réjean Couture is currently Full Professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal in Canada. After completing a PhD in Pharmacology at University of Sherbrooke, Canada, he was awarded Fellowship Awards from the Medical Research Council of Canada (MRC) and the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Quebec (FRSQ) to pursue postdoctoral trainings in Pharmacology at Oxford University and in Neuroscience at McGill University.
He is the author of over 225 original articles, books and book chapters, including 90 directly on kinins. He has supervised close to 60 graduate and postdoctoral students, many of whom now hold significant academic and other positions throughout Canada and internationally.
He is known internationally for his seminal contributions in the field of Bradykinin and Substance P in pain and inflammation and in central autonomic control of blood pressure.