Part I. Basic Science: 1. Control of vascular smooth muscle contractility A. Hughes
2. Vascular compliance Phillip Chowienczyk
3. Flow-mediated responses L. Poston
4. Neurohumoral regulation of vascular tone Kirsty M. McCulloch and J. C. McGrath
5. Angiogenesis A. Halliday
6. Apoptosis M. Bennett
7. Wound healing N. L. Occleston and P. T. Khaw
Part II. Pathophysiology: Mechanisms and Imaging: 8. Genetics of cardiovascular disease M. J. Caulfield
9. The endothelium in disease B. J. Hunt and J. M. Jurd
10. Nitric oxide Patrick Vallance
11. Imaging the vasculature Alan Moody
Part III. Clinical Practice: 12. Vascular biology in hypertension M. Schachter
13. Atherosclerosis Peter Weissberg
14. Aneurysms Janet Powell
15. The vasculature in diabetes John Tooke
16. The vasculitides Caroline Savage
17. Pulmonary hypertension T. Higgenbottam
18. The endothelium in transplantation M. Rose
19. The vasculature in pregnancy L. Poston.