BookIan M.C. Dixon, Jeffrey T. Wigle, editors.
Contents:
Cardiac fibrosis and heart failure-- cause or effect?
Fibroblast activation in the infarcted myocardium
Mechanical and matrix regulation of valvular fibrosis
Bone marrow-derived progenitor cells, micro-RNA, and fibrosis
The stressful life of cardiac myofibroblasts
Pathogenic origins of fibrosis in the hypertensive heart disease that accompnaies aldosternoism
Embryological origin of valve progenitor cells
Diverse cellular origin of valve progenitor cells
Diverse cellular origins of cardiac fibroblasts
Non-canonical regulation of TGF-β1 signaling: a role for Ski/Sno and YAP/TAZ
Molecular mechanisms of smooth muscle and fibroblast phenotype conversions in the failing heart
Current and future strategies for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac fibrosis
Remodelling of the cardiac extracellular matrix: role of collagen degradation and accumulation in pathogenesis of heart failure
Matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9)
Collagen processing and its role in fibrosis
Mechanisms of cardiac fibrosis and heart failure
Mathematical simulations of sphingosine-1-phosphate actions on mammalian ventricular myofibroblasts and myocytes
Extracellular matrix and cardiac disease: surgical and scientific perspectives
The role or neurohumoral activation in cardiac fibrosis and heart failure
Natriuretic peptides: critical regulators of cardiac fibroblasts and the extracellular matrix in the heart
Cardiac tissue engineering for the treatment of heart failure post-infarction
Mechanisms in cardiac valve failure and the development of tissue engineered heart valves
Index.