Delayed Preconditioning and Adaptive Cardioprotection, Vol. 207

Author: G. F. Baxter
Published: December 1998
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN: 0792352599
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 228

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This compilation of state-of-the-art reviews by those who have made significant contributions to this field, provides detailed and critical analysis of this research, from molecular basis to potential clinical relevance. The book aims to provide an authoritative, comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date overview for scientists and clinicians engaged in, or observing, this rapidly-developing area of heart research. It will also be of interest to those engaged in research on other tissues where ischaemia-reperfusion pathology is of major concern.

Table of Contents:

Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Delayed Preconditioning Against Lethal Ischaemic Injury 1
2 Delayed Preconditioning Against Myocardial Stunning 29
3 Delayed Preconditioning Against Endothelial Dysfunction 47
4 Delayed Preconditioning Against Ventricular Arrhythmias 63
5 Intracellular Signalling Mechanisms in Myocardial Adaptation to Ischaemia 91
6 Changes in Cardiac Gene Expression After Ischaemia and Reperfusion 111
7 The Heat Shock Response and Tissue Protection 135
8 Antioxidant Defences in Myocardial Adaptation 155
9 Endotoxin, Monophosphoryl Lipid A and Delayed Cardioprotection 171
10 Adenosine and Delayed Cardioprotection 189
11 Angina and Cardiac Adaptation 209
Index 225

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