Formation of the Heart and its Regulation

Herausgegeben:Tomanek, Robert J.; Runyan, Robert B.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The `Formation of the Heart and its Regulation` reviews in considerabledetail the major events in heart development and their control viagenes, cell-cell interactions, growth factors and other contributingelements. In addition, there is an extensive and useful overview of thefield of heart development taken as a whole.The book will appeal to all students and researchers working oncardiovascular development and to pediatric cardiologists.

Produktdetails

• Cardiovascular Molecular Morphogenesis
• Verlag: Birkhäuser Basel / Springer, Basel
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781461266624
• ISBN-10: 1461266629
• Artikelnr.: 39560145

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.