An Introduction to Vascular Biology: From Basic Science To Clinical Practice
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 7/25/2002
EAN 9780521796521, ISBN10: 0521796520
Paperback, 474 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
Vascular biology is an exciting and rapidly advancing area of medical research, with many new and emerging pathophysiological links to an increasing number of diseases. This updated and expanded new edition takes full account of these developments and conveys the basic science underlying a wide range of clinical conditions including atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes, and pregnancy. As with the first edition, the publication provides an introductory account of vascular biology before leading on to explain mechanisms involved in disease processes. Other emerging topics include the role of nitric oxide and apoptosis in vascular biology. The breadth and range of subjects covered in this new edition do full justice to this increasingly important area of clinical research and medicine. This multidisciplinary approach will suit the needs of all those seeking to refresh their knowledge with the very latest advances from basic science through to clinical practice.
Part I. Basic Science
1. Control of vascular smooth muscle contractility A. Hughes
2. Vascular compliance Phillip Chowienczyk
3. Flow-mediated responses L. Poston
4. Neurohumoral regulation of vascular tone Kirsty M. McCulloch and J. C. McGrath
5. Angiogenesis A. Halliday
6. Apoptosis M. Bennett
7. Wound healing N. L. Occleston and P. T. Khaw
Part II. Pathophysiology
Mechanisms and Imaging
8. Genetics of cardiovascular disease M. J. Caulfield
9. The endothelium in disease B. J. Hunt and J. M. Jurd
10. Nitric oxide Patrick Vallance
11. Imaging the vasculature Alan Moody
Part III. Clinical Practice
12. Vascular biology in hypertension M. Schachter
13. Atherosclerosis Peter Weissberg
14. Aneurysms Janet Powell
15. The vasculature in diabetes John Tooke
16. The vasculitides Caroline Savage
17. Pulmonary hypertension T. Higgenbottam
18. The endothelium in transplantation M. Rose
19. The vasculature in pregnancy L. Poston.
'Beverley Hunt and her co-editors have succeeded in putting together a collection of varied chapters in which the underlying structural and functional abnormalities in blood vessels are described scientifically in the context of clinical disorders. Individual chapters are easy to read and should provide helpful guidance to clinicians and those interested in the pathophysiological basis of vascular medicine.' Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine