Cardiovascular Genomics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rai, Mohan K. (Editor), Paton, Julian F. R. (Editor), Kasparov, Sergey (Editor), Katovich, Michael J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2005.
• Series: Contemporary Cardiology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.

After more than 50 years of limited success in controlling blood pressure with traditional antihypertensive drugs, the time is ripe to explore alternate strategies for managing cardiovascular diseases. In Cardiovascular Genomics, recognized scientists and clinicians from around the world discuss the...

Table of Contents:

• Genes and Polymorphisms in Cardiovascular Disease
• Angiotensin II Receptor Polymorphisms and Hypertension
• Angiotensinogen Gene Polymorphisms and Hypertension
• Substitution Mapping
• Local Production of Angiotensinogen
• Cardiovascular Pharmacogenomics
• Genetic Polymorphisms and Response to HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
• Monogenic Causes of Heart Failure
• Gene Transfer for Combating Cardiovascular Disease
• Gene Therapy vs Pharmacotherapy
• Molecular Therapeutic Approaches for Myocardial Protection
• Gene Transfer and the Cardiovascular System
• Kallikrein Gene Transfer in Hypertension, Cardiovascular and Renal Disease, and Stroke
• Current and Future Novel Targets of Gene Therapy for Hypertension
• Application of Viral Gene Transfer in Studies of Neurogenic Hypertension
• Vigilant Vectors
• Gene Therapy for Celebral Arterial Diseases
• Regenerative Tissues for the Diseased Cardiovascular System
• Therapeutic Angiogenesis and Vasculogenesis for Tissue Regeneration
• Cell Transplantation
• Embryonic Stem Cells and the Cardiovascular System.