This collection of reviews will be of considerable interests to biologists and MDs working on any aspect of cardiovascular function. With state-of-the-art reviews written by competent experts in the field, the content is also of interest for MSc and PhD students in most fields of cardiovascular physiology.
Collating a host of cutting-edge studies of key aspects of cardiovascular function in vertebrates, this volume also features material on the evolution and physiology of various invertebrates and reviews the stunning morphology of the teleost heart.
This collection of reviews will be of considerable interests to biologists and MDs working on any aspect of cardiovascular function. With state-of-the-art reviews written by competent experts in the field, the content is also of interest for MSc and PhD students in most fields of cardiovascular physiology.
Chapter 1. Comparative evolution and design in non-vertebrate cardiovascular systems
B.R. McMahon
Chapter 2. The teleost heart: A morphological approach
Jos? M. Icardo
Chapter 3. Fish Heart Growth and Function: From Gross Morphology to Cell Signalling and Back
B. Tota and F. Garofalo
Chapter 4. A perspective on the evolution of the coronary circulation in fishes and the transition to terrestrial life
A.P. Farrell, N.D. Farrell, H. Jourdan and G. Cox
Chapter 5. The sarcoplasmatic reticulum in the vertebrate heart
Gina L J Galli and Holly A Shiels
Chapter 6. Evolution of the regulatory control of the vertebrate heart: the role of the contractile proteins
Todd E. Gillis
Chapter 7. Ontogenesis of myocardial function
David Sedmera, and Bohuslav Ostadal?
Chapter 8. Basic Cardiac Development: The heart and its electrical components
L.Y.E. Wong, A.F. Moorman, and P. Barnett
Chapter 9. Thel"
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