Antihypertensive functions of the kidney: Arthur C. Corcoran memorial lecture.

Bartter's syndrome: a disorder of vascular reactivity. Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture.

Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture. Sympathetic activity, vascular capacitance, and long-term regulation of arterial pressure.

I am honored to have been chosen to present the 2008 Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture, because Dr Corcoran was both a brilliant scientist and one of the founding fathers in the field of hypertension research, but I am particularly gratified to join the list of superb scientists who have preceded me as Corcoran lecturers. When I began studying hypertension as a postdoctoral fellow, under the ...

Angiotensin II, aldosterone and arterial pressure: a quantitative approach. Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture.

I AM deeply appreciative of the recognition accorded to me and to my colleagues by my being asked to deliver the A. C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture. I was, unfortunately, never privileged to meet the late Dr. Corcoran, although I was present at the meeting in Paris in 1965 when his death was announced. The manner in which this news was received, and the tributes' paid to him at that time, left no ...

Corcoran lecture: the case for or against salt in hypertension. Arthur Curtis Corcoran, MD (1909-1965). Tribute and prelude to Corcoran Lecture of 1988.

Salt intake in excess of body needs has long been considered a factor in the genesis and maintenance of human hypertension; the mechanism is salt retention due to faulty renal excretory efficiency. This discussion reviews clinical studies that make a case either for or against the salt hypothesis. Included is a summary of recent experiences with 4 days of salt depletion and 3 days of salt loadi...

Antihypertensive Functions of the Kidney

I AM grateful to the Council for High Blood Pressure Research and to its Program Committee for the invitation to deliver the Third Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture. I have felt this responsibility keenly since Dr. Bumpus first approached me: first, because, after 16 years as a member of this body, I am well aware of the critical nature of my peers on the Council; and second, because of the i...