Cardiac adaptation in heart failure : risks due to myocardial phenotype changes /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Holtz, J., Drexler, H. (Helmut), Just, H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Darmstadt : New York : Steinkopff Verlag ; Springer-Verlag, [1992]
Series:Basic research in cardiology ; v. 87, suppl. 2.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Biological adaptation of the myocardium to a permanent change in loading conditions
  • Role of protein kinase system in the signal transduction of stretch-mediated myocyte growth
  • Sympathetic modulation of the cardiac myocyte phenotype : studies with a cell-culture model of myocardial hypertrophy
  • Growth factors, growth factor response elements, and the cardiac phenotype
  • Signaling mechanisms for the activation of an embryonic gene program during the hypertrophy of cardiac ventricular muscle
  • Endothelial modulation of myocardial contraction : mechanisms and potential relevance in cardiac disease
  • The regulation of calcium cycling in stressed hearts
  • Energetics of calcium cycling in nonfailing and failing human myocardium
  • Spontaneous sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺ release leads to heterogeneity of contractile and electrical properties of the heart
  • Afterdepolarizations and triggered activity
  • The contribution of nonreentrant mechanisms to malignant ventricular arrhythmias
  • The potential role of Ca²⁺ for electrical cell-to-cell uncoupling and conduction block in myocardial tissue
  • Failure of myocardial inactivation : a clinical assessment in the hypertrophied heart
  • Diastolic dysfunction in pressure-overload hypertrophy and its modification by angiotesin II : current concepts
  • Mechanisms of cardiac growth. The role of the renin-angiotensin system
  • Cardiac fibroblasts : funtion, regulation of gene expression, and phenotypic
  • Modulation of myocardial sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca⁺⁺-ATPase in cardiac hypertrophy by angiotensin converting enzyme?