Dennis V.P. Cokkinos / Constantinos Pantos / Gerd Heusch / Heinrich Taegtmeyer (eds.)

Myocardial Ischemia

From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Potentials
Ed. by D. V. Cokkinos, C. Pantos, Gerd Heusch et al.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tremendous progress has been made in understanding the pathophysiology of ischemic heart disease. As a result, new therapeutic approaches for protecting the heart from ischemic injury are in development.
This volume will highlight issues concerning basic mechanisms of ischemia-reperfusion injury in relation to potential therapeutic strategies.

Produktdetails

• Basic Science for the Cardiologist
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• 2006
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780387286570
• ISBN-10: 0387286578
• Artikelnr.: 20751870

Autorenporträt

Dennis V.P. Cokkinos, University of Athens, Athens, Greece / C. Pantos, University of Athens, Athens, Greece / Gerd Heusch, Universitatsklinikum Essen, Essen, Germany / H. Taegtmeyer, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- Introduction: From Fetal to Fatal: Metabolic adaptation of the heart to environmental stress.- Myocardial Ischemia: Basic concepts.- Hormones Signaling and Myocardial Ischemia.- Ischemic Preconditioning.- Connexin 43 and Ischemic Preconditioning.- Coronary Microembolization.- Fibroblast Growth Factor-2.- Myocardial Protection - From Concepts to Clinical Practice.- A Synopsis.- Index.