Aldosterone

Dr. Gerald Litwack obtained M.S. and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin Department of Biochemistry and remained there for a brief time as a Lecturer on Enzymes. Then he entered the Biochemical Institute of the Sorbonne as a Fellow of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. He next moved to Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and later as Associate Professor of biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine. After four years he moved to the Temple University School of Medicine as Professor of Biochemistry and Deputy Director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, soon after, becoming the Laura H. Carnell Professor. Subsequently he was appointed chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the Jefferson Medical College as well as Vice Dean for Research and Deputy Director of the Jefferson Cancer Institute and Director of the Institute for Apoptosis. Following the move of his family, he became a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Biological Chemistry of the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and then became the Founding Chair of the Department of Basic Sciences at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, becoming Professor of Molecular and Cellular Medicine and Associate Director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the Texas A&M Health Science Center as his final position. During his career he was a visiting scientist at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry, London and the Wistar Institute. He was appointed Emeritus Professor and/or Chair at Rutgers University, Thomas Jefferson University and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. He has published more than 300 scientific papers, authored three textbooks and edited more than sixty-five books. Currently he lives with his family and continues his authorship and editorial work in Los Angeles.

1. Regulation of Aldosterone Signaling by MicroRNAs Michael B. Butterworth and Diego Alvarez de la Rosa 2. Evolution of the Mineralocorticoid Receptor Michael E. Baker and Yoshinao Katsu 3. Adipocyte Mineralocorticoid Receptor Marco Infante, Andrea Armani, Vincenzo Marzolla, Andrea Fabbri and Massimiliano Caprio 4. Regulation of Aldosterone Secretion Scott M. MacKenzie, Josie van Kralingen and Eleanor Davies 5. Leptin and Aldosterone Jessica L. Faulkner and Eric J. Belin de Chantemèle 6. Mechanisms of Mineralocorticoid Receptor Signaling Peter J. Fuller, Jun Yang and Morag J. Young 7. Aldosterone Research: 65 Years, and Counting John W. Funder 8. Primary Aldosteronism: Present and Future John Funder 9. Aldosterone-Producing Adenomas Per Hellman, Peyman Björklund and Tobias Åkerström 10. Brain Mineralocorticoid Receptors and Resilience to Stress Sofia Kanatsou, Marian Joels and Harm Krugers 11. Aldosterone and Myocardial Pathology Alessandro Cannavo, Andrea Elia, Daniela Liccardo, Giuseppe Rengo and Walter J. Koch 12. Paracrine Regulation of Aldosterone Secretion in Physiological and Pathophysiological Conditions Hervé Lefebvre, Céline Duparc, Alexandre Naccache, Antoine-Guy Lopez, Mireille Castanet and Estelle Louiset 13. Nongenomic Effects of Aldosterone Anastasia S. Mihailidou, Andreas G. Tzakos and Anthony W. Ashton 14. Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists Anneli Nordqvist and Kenneth L. Granberg 15. Aldosterone and Ion Channels William C. Valinsky, Rhian M. Touyz and Alvin Shrier 16. Inhibitors of Aldosterone Synthase Steven M. Weldon and Nicholas F. Brown 17. Aldosterone, the Mineralocorticoid Receptor and Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Disease Morag J. Young and Gail K. Adler