Interactive and integrative cardiology /

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Meeting name:Larry and Horti Fairberg Cardiac Workshop (4th : 2006 : Charleston, S.C.)
Imprint:Boston, Mass. : Blackwell Pub. on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006.
Description:xxiii, 450 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 0077-8923 ; 1080
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6169023
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Other authors / contributors:Sideman, S.
Beyar, Rafael.
New York Academy of Sciences.
ISBN:1573316512 (alk. paper)
9781573316514 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Standard no.:9781573316514
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: The Challenge of Cardiac Modeling-Interaction and Integration
  • Part I. Development and Genetics
  • Functional Studies of Individual Myosin Molecules
  • Recruitment of New Cells into the Postnatal Heart: Potential Modification of Phenotype by Periostin
  • Cell-Based Approaches for Cardiac Repair
  • The Unstoppable Connexin43 Carboxyl-Terminus: New Roles in Gap Junction Organization and Wound Healing
  • The Developing Cardiac Myocyte: Maturation of Excitability and Excitation-Contraction Coupling
  • Dynamic Interactions between Myocytes, Fibroblasts, and Extracellular Matrix
  • Embryonic Heart Induction
  • The Role of Basic Leucine Zipper Protein-Mediated Transcription in Physiological and Pathological Myocardial Hypertrophy
  • Part II. Mechanochemical Interactions
  • Hypertrophy and Atrophy of the Heart: The Other Side of Remodeling
  • Role of Cellular Compartmentation in the Metabolic Response to Stress: Mechanistic Insights from Computational Models
  • Maintenance of the Metabolic Homeostasis of the Heart: Developing a Systems Analysis Approach
  • Part III. Electrochemical Interactions
  • Diversity of Ca[superscript 2+] Signaling in Developing Cardiac Cells
  • Regulation of Ca[superscript 2+] and Na[superscript +] in Normal and Failing Cardiac Myocytes
  • The Integration of Spontaneous Intracellular Ca[superscript 2+] Cycling and Surface Membrane Ion Channel Activation Entrains Normal Automaticity in Cells of the Heart's Pacemaker
  • Calcium Handling in Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiac Myocytes: Of Mice and Men
  • Cellular Alternans: A Mechanism Linking Calcium Cycling Proteins to Cardiac Arrhythmogenesis
  • Part IV. Electromechanical Interactions
  • The Mechanoelectric Feedback: A Novel "Calcium Clamp" Method, using Tetanic Contraction, for Testing the Role of the Intracellular Free Calcium
  • Role of Sarcomere Mechanics and Ca[superscript 2+] Overload in Ca[superscript 2+] Waves and Arrhythmias in Rat Cardiac Muscle
  • Cellular Basis for the Repolarization Waves of the ECG
  • Mechanosensitive-Mediated Interaction, Integration, and Cardiac Control
  • Three-Dimensional Models of Individual Cardiac Histoanatomy: Tools and Challenges
  • Cardiac Defibrillation and the Role of Mechanoelectric Feedback in Postshock Arrhythmogenesis
  • Part V. Integrated Models and Analysis
  • Modeling Cardiac Electrical Activity at the Cell and Tissue Levels
  • Cardiac [Beta]-Adrenergic Signaling: From Subcellular Microdomains to Heart Failure
  • Multiscale Modeling of Calcium Signaling in the Cardiac Dyad
  • Nonlinear Dynamics of Paced Cardiac Cells
  • Modeling Cardiac Ischemia
  • Part VI. Novel Therapeutics
  • Cardiovascular Therapeutic Aspects of Cell Therapy and Stem Cells
  • Adenylyl Cyclase Gene Transfer in Heart Failure
  • Genetic Engineering and Therapy for Inherited and Acquired Cardiomyopathies
  • Nanomedicine Opportunities in Cardiology
  • Effects of Synchronized Cardiac Assist Device on Cardiac Energetics
  • Index of Contributors