SATURDAY |
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Central Angiotensin Pathways: The State of Our Current Knowledge |
| Session Overview: Robert Speth (Washington State University, Pullman, WA) |
| Curt Sigmund (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA)
Studies of the Brain Renin-Angiotensin System: Lessons in Drinking! |
| Colin Sumners (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL)
MIF: A Novel Regulator of the CNS Actions of Angiotensin II |
| Juan Saavedra (NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, MD)
The Role of Brain Angiotensin in Stress |
| Debra Diz (Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC)
Angiotensins and the Baroreflex in Aging |
| Thomas Walther (UKBF, Free University, Berlin, Germany)
Ang 1-7 in the Brain |
SUNDAY |
8:30 am - 12:00 pm | Ang II and the Immune System |
| Session Overview: Jon A. Weidanz (Texas Tech University, Amarillo, TX) |
| Jon A. Weidanz (Texas Tech University, Amarillo, TX)
AT1 Receptor Modulation of T Lymphocyte Function |
| Discussant: Tom Coffman (Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC)
"Regulation of Cellular Immune Responses by Angiotensin II" |
| Jorge Geffner (IIHEMA, Academia Nacional de Medicina, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Role of Angiotensin II in the Differentiation of Dendritic Cells |
| Marielle Kaplan (Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel)
Angiotensin II Increases Macrophages Oxidative Stress and Accelerates Atherogenesis: Crucial Role of Macrophage Angiotensin Converting Enzyme |
| Break |
| Allan Brasier (University of Texas Medical Branch, Gainsvelle, TX)
Pro-inflammatory signaling mechanisms of Ang II |
| Marta Ruiz-Ortega (Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain)
Angiotensin II : A True Cytokine in Vascular or Renal Damage |
| Dominik Mueller (Franz-Volhard-Klinik, Berlin, FRG)
Ang II-induced Endorgan Damage - an Inflammatory and Imunological Event |