Sodium-potassium-ATPase / Mauro Bustamante and Eric Feraille -- The epithelial sodium channel / Olivier Bonny -- The sodium-hydrogen exchange system / Peter A. Doris -- Renal structure proteins and sodium transport / Paolo Manunta and Maria Teresa Sciarrone -- Neural control of sodium balance / Edward J. Johns -- Aldosterone and mineralcorticoid receptors / Nicolette Farman -- 11[Beta]-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase / Paolo Ferrari and John W. Funder -- Integrative renal regulation of sodium excretion / Jean-Pierre Montani and Bruce N. Van Vliet -- Animal models of abnormal sodium handling / Pierre Meneton -- Sodium and the development of hypertension : experimental evidence / Trefor Owen Morgan and Robert Di Nicolantonio -- Salt and hypertension : epidemiological and clinical evidence for a link / Feng J. He and A. MacGregor -- Influence of sodium on pulse pressure and systolic hypertension in the elderly / Michel E. Safar and Athanase Benetos -- Salt and blood pressure: the concept of salt sensitivity / Murielle Bochud and Michel Burnier -- Renal sodium handling in women / David Z.I. Cherney and Judith A. Miller -- Sodium balance in cirrhosis / Andres Cardenas and Pere Gines -- Sodium balance in heart failure / Srinivas Iyengar and William T. Abraham -- The kidney: a target organ of excessice dietary salt intake / Albert Mimran and Jean Ribstein -- Sodium balance in the metabolic syndrome and diabetes / Anne Zanchi -- Drug-induced alterations of sodium balance : the example of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents / Marc P. Maillard and Michel Burnier -- Position of diuretics in the management of hypertension / Bernard Waeber and Michel Burnier -- Sodium status and the response to blockade of the renin-angiotensin system / Friso L.H. Muntinghe and Gerjan J. Navis -- Mineralocorticoid antagonists in heart failure and chronic renal failure / Nancy J. Brown.