Title | Cardiac Remodeling and Failure [electronic resource] / edited by Pawan K. Singal, Ian M. C. Dixon, Lorrie A. Kirshenbaum, Naranjan S. Dhalla |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2003 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9262-8 |
Descript | XVI, 545 p. online resource |
I. Heart Failure and Therapies -- 1. Pathophysiology of Heart Failure: Role of Oxygen Free Radicals -- 2. Therapeutics in Congestive Heart Failure: From Hemodynamics to Neurohormones -- 3. Dilated Cardiomyopathies and Congestive Heart Failure -- 4. The Failing SHHF Rat Heart -- 5. Increased Expression of Na+?Ca2+ Exchanger in the Myocardium. Impact on Contractility and Arrhythmogenesis in Heart Failure -- 6. Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Proteins as Potential Targets for Gene Therapy of Heart Failure -- 7. Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Gene Expression of Ca2+-Cycling Proteins as a Target for the Treatment of Heart Failure -- 8. Effects of the Beta-Adrenoceptor Blocker Carvedilol in Children with Myocardial Failure -- 9. The Contractile and Neurohormonal Roles of Phospholamban in Heart Failure -- 10. Annexins: Roles in the Regulation of Ca2+ Handling Proteins During Heart Failure -- 11. Modulators of Myofibrillar Function: Implications in Myocardial Failure -- II. Remodeling and Heart Failure -- 12. Structural Remodeling of Cardiac Myocytes in Hypertrophy and Progression to Failure -- 13. Three-Dimensional Imaging of Microvascular Morphology and Remodeling in Acute and Chronic Myocarditis -- 14. Alterations in Hemodynamic and Neurohumoral Responses to Exercise in Swine with Left Ventricular Remodeling Early After Myocardial Infarction: Role of Blunted NO Bioavailability -- 15. Sheep Models of Postinfarction Left Ventricular Remodeling -- 16. Echocardiographic Characterization of the Cardiovascular Phenotype in Mouse Models -- 17. A Novel Role for Cytokine Signaling in Cardiac Remodeling -- 18. Effects of Angiotensin II Receptor Blockade and Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor on Ventricular Remodeling After Myocardial Infarction: With Special References to Sarcoplasmic Reticulum and its mRNA -- 19. The Effect of Bradykinin on the Remodeling of Pressure-Overloaded Myocardium -- 20. Catecholamines and Cardiac Remodeling -- 21. Matrix Degradative Enzyme Activities on Cardiac Remodeling in Heart Failure -- 22. On Atrial Remodeling and Drug Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation -- III. Biology of Heart Failure -- 23. Infarct Scar. Living Tissue -- 24. The Use of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Repair the Infarcted Heart -- 25. Role of Na+/Ca2+ Exchange in Contraction and Relaxation in Immature Ventricular Myocytes -- 26. Is an Intracrine Renin-Angiotensin System Involved in the Control of Cardiovascular Function? -- 27. Structural Substrates Involved in the Development of Severe Arrhythmias in Hypertensive Rat and Aged Guinea Pig Hearts -- 28. Influence of Transgenic Expression of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+ ATPase on Reticular Ca2+ Transport in Rat Hearts -- 29. Communicating Junctions, Connexins and the Cardiomyocyte: From Cell Biology to Cardiology -- 30. Mechanisms of Palmitate-Induced Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis -- 31. Mitochondrial Function in Failing Human Myocardium In Vivo: Atrioventricular Differences -- 32. Modulation of Heart Fibroblast Gene Expression and Proliferation by Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 -- 33. Role of Mast Cells in Cardiovascular Disease -- 34. Regulation of Digitalis Glycoside Receptors in Digoxin Treatment -- 35. Cardiac Toxicity of Cocaine: From Myocardial Depression to Cardiomyopathy