Development of Cardiovascular Systems
Molecules to Organisms

This book is a unique overview of cardiovascular development from the cellular to the organ level across a broad range of species.

Warren W. Burggren (Edited by), Bradley B. Keller (Edited by), Constance Weinstein (Foreword by)

9780521560726, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 January 1998

378 pages, 110 b/w illus. 13 tables
25.4 x 18.3 x 2 cm, 1 kg

This book is a unique overview of cardiovascular development from the cellular to the organ level across a broad range of species. The first section focuses on the molecular, cellular, and integrative mechanisms that determine cardiovascular development. The second section has eight chapters that summarise cardiovascular development in invertebrate and vertebrate systems. The third section discusses the effects of disease and environmental and morphogenetic influences on non-mammalian and mammalian cardiovascular development. It includes strategies for the management of congenital cardiovascular malformations in utero and postnatally. The book will interest graduate students and researchers who work in the fields of developmental biology, physiology, and molecular and paediatric cardiology.

List of contributors
Foreword Constance Weinstein
Introduction. Why study cardiovascular development? Warren B. Burggren and Bradley B. Keller
Part I. Molecular Cellular and Integrative Mechanisms: Determining Cardiovascular Development: 1. Genetic dissection of heart development Jau-Nian Chen and Mark C. Fishman
2. Cardiac membrane characteristics Lynn Mahony
3. Development of the myocardial contractile system Anne M. Murphy
4. Vasculogenesis and angiogenesis of the developing heart Robert J. Tomanek and Anna Ratajska
5. Extracellular matrix maturation and morphogenesis Wayne Carver, Louis Terracio and Thomas K. Borg
6. Endothelial maturation Jackson Wong
7. Embryonic cardiovascular function, coupling and maturation: a species view Bradley B. Keller
8. Hormonal systems regulating the cardiovascular system Makoto Nakazawa and Fusae Kajio
Part II. Species Diversity in Cardiovascular Development: 9. Evolution of cardiovascular systems: insights into ontogeny Anthony P. Farrell
10. Morphogenesis of vertebrate hearts José M. Icardo
11. Invertebrate cardiovascular development Brian R. McMahon, George B. Bourne and Ka Hou Chu
12. Piscine cardiovascular development Peter J. Rombough
13. Amphibian cardiovascular development Warren W. Rurggren and Regina Fritsche
14. Reptilian cardiovascular development Stephen J. Warburton
15. Avian cardiovascular development Hiroshi Tazawa and Ping-Chun Lucy Hou
16. Mammalian cardiovascular development Kent L. Thornburg, George D. Giraud, Mark D. Reller and Mark J. Morton
Part III. Environment and Disease in Cardiovascular Development: 17. Oxygen, temperature and pH influences on the development of non-mammalian embryos and larvae Bernd Pelster
18. Modelling gas exchange in embryos, larvae and fetuses Alan W. Pinder
19. Principles of abnormal cardiac development Adriana C. Gittenberger-de Groot and Robert E. Poelmann
20. In utero and postnatal interventions in cardiovascular malformations V. Mohan Reddy and Frank L. Hanley
21. Insights into the future care of congenital cardiovascular malformations Edward B. Clark
Epilogue. Future directions in developmental cardiovascular sciences Bradley B. Keller and Warren W. Burggren
References
Systematic index
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Cellular biology [cytology PSF], Cardiovascular medicine [MJD]