Formation of the Heart and its Regulation

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-1-4612-6662-4
Verlag: Birkhäuser Boston

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Cardiovascular Molecular Morphogenesis

The `Formation of the Heart and its Regulation` reviews in considerable
detail the major events in heart development and their control via
genes, cell-cell interactions, growth factors and other contributing
elements. In addition, there is an extensive and useful overview of the
field of heart development taken as a whole.
The book will appeal to all students and researchers working on
cardiovascular development and to pediatric cardiologists.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Runyan, Robert B.

Tomanek, Robert J.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Kardiologie, Angiologie, Phlebologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Zellbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Anatomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Overview of Heart Development.- 2. Myofibrillogenesis in the Heart.- 3. Cardiac Looping and the Left-Right Axis: Integrating Morphologic, Molecular, and Genetic Analyses ofVertebrate Left-Right Asymmetry.- 4. Differentially Expressed Genes and Cardiac Morphogenesis.- 5. Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiac Diversification.- 6. Neural Crest and Heart Development.- 7. Cardiac Conduction System Development.- 8. The Epicardium and the Formation of the Coronary Vasculature.- 9. The Role of the Extracellular Matrix and Its Receptors in Modulating Cardiac Development.- 10. Growth Factor Regulation of Embryonic, Fetal and Neonatal Cardiac Development.- 11. Transforming Growth Factor-13 Signal Transduction in the Atrioventricular Canal During Heart Development.- 12. Homocysteine and the N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptor: Are They Keys to Conotruncal Abnormalities?.- 13. Function and Biomechanics of Developing Cardiovascular Systems.