[Effect of prostaglandins on the cardiovascular system]

Ever since the effect of prostaglandins on vasal tone and cardiac function was discovered, an impressive series of studies has been conducted on their relations with the cardiovascular system. These studies have been extended to the prostaglandin system compounds discovered in more recent times. Of these, particular importance is being attached to prostacycline, though to be implicated in the physiological control of platelet clumping and also in that of renin secretion. Further investigation of the part played by prostacycline and other prostaglandins in cardiovascular disease has given unusually promising interim results.