Arteriogenesis [Paperback]

Emphasizes the research activities of Germanys Nauheim Institute of the Max Planck Society and its group of investigators both past and present, in the field of collateral artery growth.

Incorporates a multidisciplinary in vivo approach to the study of arteriogenesis that includes molecular approaches with classical physiology and immunohistochemistry.

Full color throughout and well illustrated.

List of Contributors1. Introduction; Wolfgang Schaper2. Embryonic Development of Collateral Arteries; Borja Fern?ndez3. Structural Remodeling during Growth of Collateral Vessels; Wei-jun Cai, Dimitri Scholz, Tibor Ziegelhoeffer and Jutta Schaper4. Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Shawn Wagner, Armin Helisch and Tibor Ziegelhoeffer5. Physical Forces and their Translation into Molecular Mechanisms; Wolfgang Schaper, Frederic Pipp, Dimitri Scholz, Stefanie Boehrn, Elisabeth Deindl, Miroslav Barancik, Inka Eitenmueller, Tibor Ziegelhoeffer, Alexander Kluge and Thomas Schmitz-Rixen6. Role of Hypoxia/Ischemia/VEGF-A, and Strain Difference; Elisabeth Deindl, Armin Helisch, Dimitri Scholz, Matthias Heil, Shawn Wagner and Wolfgang Schaper7. Monocytes and Cytokines; Matthias Heil and Elisabeth Deindl8. Bone Marrow-Derived Cells; Tibor Ziegelhoeffer, Sawa Kostin, Borja Fern?ndez, Matthias Heil and Wolfgang Schaper9. Cell-Cell and Cell-Matrix Interactions; Borja Fern?ndez and Kerstin Broich10. Fibroblast Growth Factors; Ren? Zimmermann, Borja Fern?ndez, Alexandra Buehler, Alessandra Martire, Sawa Kostin, Claudia Strohm, Swen Wolfram and Elisabeth Deindl11. Signal Transduction Pathways in Smooth Muscle Cells; Sabina Vogel, Thomas Kubin, Miroslav Barancik, Elisabeth Deindl, Dietmar von der Ahe and Ren? Zimmermann12. Expression Profiling of Growing Collateral Arteries/Hunting for New Genes; Ren? Zimmermann, Kerstin Boengler, Andreas Kampmann, Borja Fern?ndez, Elisabeth Deindl and Wolfgang Schaper13. ThelĄ