Cardiac fibrosis and heart failure : cause or effect? /: cause or effect?. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ian M.C. Dixon, Jeffrey T. Wigle, editors.
• Editors: Dixon, Ian M. C; Wigle, Jeffrey
• Contents: 1. Fibrosis and Heart Failure -- Cause or Effect? -- 2. Fibroblast Activation in the Infarcted Myocardium -- 3. Mechanical and Matrix Regulation of Valvular Fibrosis -- 4. Bone Marrow-Derived Progenitor Cells, micro-RNA and Fibrosis -- 5. The Stressful Life of Cardiac Myofibroblasts -- 6. Pathogenic Origins of Fibrosis in the Hypertensive Heart Disease that Accompanies Aldosteronism -- 7. Embryological origin of valve progenitor cells -- 8. Diverse cellular origins of cardiac fibroblasts -- 9. Non-Canonical Regulation of TGF-Ý1 Signaling: A Role for Ski/Sno and YAP/TAZ -- 10. Molecular mechanisms of smooth muscle and fibroblast phenotype conversions in the failing heart -- 11. Current and future strategies for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac fibrosis -- 12. Remodelling of the cardiac extracellular matrix: Role of collagen degradation and accumulation in pathogenesis of heart failure -- 13. Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9): The Middle-Man of Post Myocardial Infarction Extracellular Matrix Remodelling -- 14. Collagen processing and its role in Fibrosis -- 15. Mechanisms of Cardiac Fibrosis -- 16. Mathematical Simulations of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Actions on Mammalian Ventricular Myofibroblasts and Myocytes -- 17. Extracellular Matrix and Cardiac Disease: Surgical and Scientific Perspectives -- 18. The Role of Neurohumoral Activation in Cardiac Fibrosis and Heart Failure -- 19. Natriuretic peptides: critical regulators of cardiac fibroblasts and the extracellular matrix in the heart -- 20. Cardiac Tissue Engineering for the Treatment of Heart Failure Post-Infarction -- 21. Mechanisms of Cardiac Valve Failure and the Development of Tissue Engineered Heart Valves.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (chiefly color)
• Subjects: 616.1/29; Life sciences; Heart -- Fibrosis; Heart failure; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Heart; MEDICAL -- Cardiology; Heart failure; Heart -- Fibrosis; Life Sciences; Cell Biology; Cardiology; Molecular Medicine; Heart Failure -- etiology.rc682; Science -- Life Sciences -- Biology -- Molecular Biology; Cardiovascular medicine; Medical research; Cytology; Cardiology; Medicine; Cellular biology (cytology); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319174372; 3319174371; 3319174363; 9783319174365
• Related ISBNs: 9783319174365
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed July 6, 2015).
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