Cardiomyocytes ¿ Active Players in Cardiac Disease

Herausgegeben:Schlüter, Klaus-Dieter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book summarizes ourcurrent understanding about the biology and patho-biology of cardiomyocytes anddepicts common techniques for the study of these cells. Thebook is divided into two parts; the first part provides insight into role andfunction of cardiomyocytes under normal conditions and describes embryogenesisand differentiation, in the second part the role of cardiomyocytes in aging anddisease is discussed and cellular responses under stress conditions illustrated.Cardiomyocytes representthe main mass of the heart, and cellular malfunction directly modifies heartfunction leading to subsequent heart failure. As such, cardiomyocytes arecausative involved in the main reasons of heart failure, such as post-infarctremodeling, hypertensive heart disease, idiopathic heart failure, andinteractions with other co-morbidities such as diabetes. On the other hand,cardiomyocytes are necessarily target of therapy. Therefore, a preciseunderstanding of cardiomyocytes biology is a pre-requisite for proper diseasetreatment and evidence based medicine.
The book is written forcell biologists, pharmacologists and biomedical researchers specialized incardiac and vascular biology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-31249-1
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9783319312491
• ISBN-10: 3319312499
• Artikelnr.: 44537795

Autorenporträt

Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Schlüter Institute of Physiology JLU Giessen Giessen, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

Cardiomyocytes: Function and Regeneration.- 1.Ways to study the biology of cardiomyocytes.-2.Cardiomyocytes: Function and Regeneration.- 3.Excitation-contraction couplingof cardiomyocytes.- 4.Cardiac metabolism and energetic control.- 5.Endogenousmechanisms for regulating myocardial contractility.- Cardiomyocytes in ageing,disease, and protection.- 6.Growth regulation of cardiomyocytes: Control ofcell size and its role in cardiac hypertrophy.- 7.Protein Degradation inCardiomyocytes - Target Proteins and clinical consequences.- 8.Ischemia andReperfusion.- 9.Mechanisms of cardiac cell death.- 10.Oxidative stress andnitrosative stress.