The International Symposium on Recent Advances in Nitric Oxide Research was held in Sapporo, Japan, in September 1997. Researchers from Japan and the United States met to share their most recent findings on the controversial function of NO in the human body. The papers contained in this volume, which were presented at the Sapporo Symposium, focus on newly discovered mechanisms of NO production and NO toxicity. The book consits of four parts: NO and Cell Function, NO and Circulation, NO Production, and NO and Liver. Included are reports of NO research in a number of areas of medical science...

Remarkable progress has been made in understanding and treating heart failure. Among other developments, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and b blockers have been found to have beneficial therapeutic effects, reinforcing the view that heart failure may be both a hemodynamic and a neurohumoral disorder. The Japanese Heart Failure Society was established to curb the threat of heart failure through research, education, and clinical practice. At the Societys 2nd Annual Scientific Meeting in Sapporo, molecular biologists, physiologists, clinicians, surgeons, and researchers in related...