Title | Pathophysiology of Heart Failure [electronic resource] / edited by Naranjan S. Dhalla, Pawan K. Singal, Nobuakira Takeda, Robert E. Beamish |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1996 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1235-2 |
Descript | XLII, 578 p. online resource |
I. Cardiomyopathy and Contractile Dysfunction -- 1. Experimental models of heart failure and cardiomyopathy -- 2. Role of tissue and circulating substance P in cardiovascular injury associated with Mg-deficiency -- 3. Functional and metabolic effects of norepinephrine on the rat heart -- 4. Interventions in experimentally induced diabetic cardiomyopathy -- 5. Diabetes as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease: Experimental models -- 6. Ethanol-induced hypertension: the role of Acetaldehyde -- 7. Abnormalities in cardiac contractile proteins and cardiac dysfunction -- 8. Role of the slow sodium channel in hereditary cardiomyopathy -- 9. Cardiac contractile failure caused by disturbances in myofibrillar energy supply and pathogenesis of cardiomyopathies -- 10. Changes in contractile proteins under oxidative stress -- 11. Antioxidants and the heart -- 12. Gene expression of cardiac myocytes: a pharmacologic target for the failing heart? -- II. Calcium-Related Events and Heart Dysfunction -- 13. Regulation of slow Ca2+ channels of myocardial cells by cyclic nucleotides and phosphorylation -- 14. Multiple roles for the membrane-associated Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase in the regulation of sarcoplasmic reticulum function in heart muscle -- 15. Calreticulin, a multifunctional Ca2+ binding protein of smooth muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes -- 16. Intracellular Ca2+ transients in response to step length changes in aequorin-injected ferret papillary muscles -- 17. Initial changes in ?-adrenergic receptor function during development of rapid ventricular pacing-induced heart failure -- 18. Impaired cellular signaling of the adenylyl cyclase and the phosphoinositide pathway in septic cardiomyopathy -- 19. Defective G-protein expression and adenylyl cyclase in genetic and experimental hypertension -- 20. Electrophysiological studies of wild-type and mutant Na+-Ca2+ exchange proteins -- 21. Cardiac sarcolemmal Na+/H+ exchange after a myocardial infarction in the rat -- 22. Myocardial Na, K-ATPase concentration and heart failure -- 23. The cytosolic calcium-force relation of vascular smooth muscle during the contraction and the relaxation -- III. Ischemia and Cellular Interactions -- 24. Ventricular remodeling following coronary artery constriction and hypertension -- 25. Collagenous proteins in scar tissue subsequent to myocardial infarction -- 26. Structural remodeling and functional changes in chronic hypoxia-induced right ventricular hypertrophy -- 27. Mechanism of openings and role of the ATP-sensitive K+ channels during myocardial ischemia/reperfusion -- 28. The contribution of K+ currents to electrical heterogeneity across the canine ventricular wall under normal and ischemic conditions -- 29. Diabetic state reduces ischemic K+ loss and H+ efflux in isolated rat hearts -- 30. Divergent effects of receptor- and nonreceptor-mediated activators of sodium-hydrogen exchange on reperfusion-induced contractile dysfunction -- 31. Heart cells in culture for studying anoxia and โsimulated ischemiaโ at the cellular level -- 32. Cardioprotection and basic fibroblast growth factor -- 33. The heart and nitric oxide -- 34. The endothelium and the regulation of coronary blood flow -- 35. Signal transduction in vascular smooth muscle: synergistic interactions between receptors and transduction pathways -- 36. Modulation of peak aerobic capacity by the peripheral circulation during the course of the syndrome of congestive heart failure