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  Cardiovascular disease in racial and ethnic minorities. 1st edition

  edited by Keith C. Ferdinand and Annemarie Armani.

  Contents:
  Cardiovascular disease in racial/ethnic minorities: overview and perspectives
  Epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases and risk factors among racial/ethnic populations
  Unmasking racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease: nutritional, socioeconomic, cultural, and health-care-related contributions
  Race and genetics
  Race, genetics and cardiovascular disease
  Hypertension and stroke in racial/ethnic groups
  Dyslipidemia in racial/ethnic groups
  Novel & emerging risk factors in racial/ethnic groups
  Weight loss interventions to control blood pressure in an increasingly overweight, multi-ethnic society
  Obesity and the cardiometabolic syndrome: impact on chronic kidney disease and CVD
  Risk calculation and clustering within racial/ethnic groups
  Cardiovascular imaging in racial/ethinc populations: implications for the adequate application of cardiovascular imaging techniques guided by racial/ethnical risk factor variations
  Unique aspects of vascular and cardiac ultrasound in racial/ethnical groups
  Heart failure in racial/ethnic group
  Minority women and cardiovascular disease.

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  Cathodoluminescence technique combined with blue light fluorescence microscopy for the investigation of the transport of molecules through the extravascular space of mammalians.

  Bröcker W, Hauck G, Blaschke R, Schröer H, Pfefferkorn G.

  Microsc Acta Suppl. 1978(2):260-70.

  The mechanisms of transport of molecules across the extravascular spaces represent an open problem. Vital microscopic results with marked proteins using the blue light luminescence technique indicate a movement of fluid along the connective tissue fibres. Furthermore, the findings suggest that the elastic fibres play an important role in this movement. It may also be possible to elucidate the extravascular pathway for molecules by means of the cathodoluminescence technique in the scanning electron microscope. The investigations were performed using the mesentery of mammalians anaesthetized by Nembutal. The biological material for cathodoluminescence applications was selected from animals without injection of luminescent dye as well as with animals following intravenous injection of marked proteins. Two techniques, critical point drying and freeze drying, were used in the preparation. Stained and unstained tissues were investigated in the scanning electron microscope with a special cathodoluminescence detector system. Simultaneously observations of the tissue surfaces were performed by means of the secondary electron or backscattered electron mode. The results obtained agree with the findings observed by the blue light fluorescence microscopy and confirm the concept of an extravascular fluid pathway along the elastic fibres in the tissue.

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