Coronary Vasculature Development, Structure-Function, and Adaptations /

• Main Author: Tomanek, Robert J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Molecular biology.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Biomedicine general.; Molecular Medicine.

Ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the developed world. The high metabolism and oxygen demand of the cardiac myocardium depends on both a high blood flow and a rich capillary density. For this reason, the growth of the coronary vasculature is vital, not only in...

Table of Contents:

• General concepts of blood vessel formation and remodeling
• Prenatal coronary morphogenesis
• Postnatal coronary morphogenesis and growth
• Structure-function of the coronary hierarchy
• Historical perspectives
• Coronary anomalies
• Aging
• Adaptations to exercise training
• Hypoxia
• Myocardial ischemia and infarction
• Cardiac hypertrophy
• Therapy for coronary circulation.