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- Editors:
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V. E. Andreucci
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Department of Nephrology, University of Naples, Naples, Italy
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Antonio Canton
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Department of Nephrology, University of Naples, Naples, Italy
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Table of contents (148 papers)
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Endogenous Natriuretic Factors
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- P. Fievet, A. Fournier, A. De Bold, N. El Esper, P. Brunel, I. Gregoire
Pages 145-147
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- I. Tikkanen, C. Grönhagen-Riska, F. Fyhrquist
Pages 148-150
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- J. S. Petersen, O. M. Bech, E. Steiness, D. Kirstein, S. Christensen
Pages 151-155
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- G. Cannella, S. Ghielmi, A. Rodella, M. Gaggiotti, G. Brunori, M. Quinzanini et al.
Pages 156-158
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- H. Bobinski, J. C. Atherton, R. Green, L. Solomon
Pages 159-161
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- P. Hannaert, M. De Mendqnca, M. L. Grichois, B. Thormann, J. P. Abitbol, R. Garay
Pages 162-164
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- P. Braquet, N. Senn, A. Esanu, R. Garay
Pages 165-167
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- N. Frisina, M. Buemi, F. Squadrito, I. Macri’
Pages 168-170
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- Pierre Thievant, Joelle Baranes, Pierre Etienne Chabrier, Christine Guilmard, Sylvie Regnier, Pierre Braquet
Pages 171-173
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- P. Ferrari, H. E. de Wardener, J. A. Millet, L. Torielli, M. Ferrandi, G. Bianchi
Pages 174-176
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- P. Delva, M. Degan, C. Capra, M. De Gasperi, M. Menegazzi, A. Lechi
Pages 177-179
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- T. Tikkanen, I. Tikkanen, F. Fyhrquist, K. Metsärinne, K. J. Tötterman
Pages 180-182
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Aquaretics
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Front Matter
Pages 183-183
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- L. B. Kinter, W. Huffman, F. Stassen, S. Churchill
Pages 196-202
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- L. G. Leksell, C.-J. Wallin
Pages 203-208
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- Berne Yee, Robert L. Cosby, Robert W. Schrier
Pages 209-214
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- L. B. Kinter, G. Dytko, W. Huffman, F. Stassen
Pages 215-217
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- L. B. Kinter, W. Mann, F. Brennan, W. Huffman, F. Stassen
Pages 218-221
About this book
The need for adequate means by which to improve urine output is very old. Even in the "Scuola Salernitana", the oldest medieval medical school in Western Europe, about 1000 years ago it was taught how to improve urine output. The list of known "diuretica" included herbs, plants, roots, vegetables, in particular asparagus, fennel and carrot. The first diuretic drugs, however, were mercurial compounds. Thus, calomel, mercurous chloride, was initially used as a diuretic in the sixteenth century by Paracelsus, being one of the ingredients of the so-called "Guy's Hospital pill". But calomel had a cathartic effect so that it was replaced by organic mercurial compounds. These diuretics were clearly toxic. After the discovery of the car bonic anhydrase, in the early 1930s, and the introduction of sulfanilamide as a chemotherapeutic agent, it was observed that this drug was inhibiting carbonic anhydrase in vitro and urinary acidification in vivo thereby causing metabolic acidosis; urine output, however, appeared to increase. Subsequent studies led to the synthesis of more potent analogs, in particular acetazolamide. Studies on car bonic anhydrase inhibitors led to the synthesis of benzothiadiazides which disclosed much less inactivating action on carbonic anhydrase and much more diuretic effect through an inhibition of tubular transport of sodium and chloride. Chlorothiazide was the first member of this class of diuretics. Thiazides are still used in clinical practice.