Effects of adrenergic nervous system and catecholamines on systemic and renal hemodynamics, sodium and water excretion and renin secretion

摘要

The influences of the adrenergic nervous system on various organ systems in the body are protean. No attempt will be made in this review to survey these many effects; but rather the focus will be on the specific influences that adrenergic tone and catecholamines exert on systemic and renal hemodynamics, the excretion of sodium and water excretion and the secretion of renin. Where possible, emphasis will be placed on the integration of these functions into a ideologically oriented system of control of systemic hemodynamics and of body fluid volume and composition, including the implications for the pathogenesis of disease states.