Mechanosensitivity of the Heart

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kamkin, Andre (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kiseleva, Irina (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Σειρά: Mechanosensitivity in Cells and Tissues ; 3
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Cardiology.; Medical biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.; Biomedicine general.; Cell Biology.; Medical Biochemistry.

 Molecular Mechanisms of Mechanotransduction in Cardiac Cells -- Titin and Titin-Associated Proteins in Myocardial Stress-Sensing and Mechanical Dysfunction -- Mechanical Stretch-Induced Reorganization of the Cytoskeleton and the Small GTPase Rac-1 in Cardiac Fibroblasts -- Molecular Signaling Mechanisms of Myocardial Stretch: Implications for Heart Disease -- Mechanical Stress Induces Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy Through Agonist-Independent Activation of Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor -- Mechanically Induced Potentials and Currents of the Cardiac Cells in Healthy and Diseased Myocardium -- Mechanostransduction in Cardiac and Stem-Cell Derived Cardiac Cells -- Stretch-Activated Channels in the Heart: Contribution to Cardiac Performance -- Effects of Applied Stretch on Native and Recombinant Cardiac Na+ Currents -- Mechanosensitive Alterations of Action Potentials and Membrane Currents in Healthy and Diseased Cardiomyocytes: Cardiac Tissue and Isolated Cell -- The Role of Mechanosensitive Fibroblasts in the Heart: Evidence from Acutely Isolated Single Cells, Cultured Cells and from Intracellular Microelectrode Recordings on Multicellular Preparations from Healthy and Diseased Cardiac Tissue -- Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy for Imaging and Mechanosensitive Activation of Selected Areas of Live Cells -- Mechano-Electric Feedback in the Whole Heart and a Computer Simulation Study -- The Contribution of MEF to Electrical Heterogeneity and Arrhythmogenesis -- Mechanical Modulation of a Reentrant Arrhythmia: The Atrial Flutter Case -- Early Hypertrophic Signals After Myocardial Stretch. Role of Reactive Oxygen Species and the Sodium/Hydrogen Exchanger -- Stretch-Induced Inotropy in Atrial and Ventricular Myocardium -- Effects of Wall Stress on the Dynamics of Ventricular Fibrillation: A Computer Simulation Study of Mechanoelectric Feedback -- Electromechanical Modelling of Cardiac Tissue -- Arteries as a Source of Myogenic Contractile Activity: Ionic Mechanisms -- Specific Mechanotransduction Signaling Involved in Myogenic Responses of the Cerebral Arteries.