عنوان

Cellular and Molecular Alterations in the Failing Human Heart

0387914196

3642724744

9780387914190

9783642724749

b542226

Cellular and Molecular Alterations in the Failing Human Heart

[Book]

edited by G. Hasenfuss, Ch. Holubarsch, H. Just, N.R. Alpert.

Heidelberg

Steinkopff

1992

(xii, 344 pages 146 illustrations)

Sarcolemma and phosphodiesterases --;Receptor systems in the nonfailing human heart --;Changes in the receptor-G protein-adenylyl cyclase system in heart failure from various types of heart muscle disease --;Quantification of Gia-proteins in the failing and nonfailing human myocardium --;Regulation and possible functional implications of G-protein mRNA expression in nonfailing and failing ventricular myocardium --;Phosphodiesterase inhibition and positive inotropy in failing human myocardium --;Cardiovascular cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases and their role in regulating cardiovascular function --;Na, K-ATPase expression in normal and failing human left ventricle --;Excitation-contraction coupling and contractile proteins --;Structural and functional diversity of human ventricular myosin --;Contractile protein function in failing and nonfailing human myocardium --;Troponin T isoform expression in the normal and failing human left ventricle: A correlation with myofibrillar ATPase activity --;Effects of different expression and posttranslational modifications of myosin light chains on contractility of skinned human cardiac fibers --;Responsiveness of the myofilaments to Ca2+ in human heart failure: Implications for Ca2+ and force regulation --;The regulation of the human? myosin heavy-chain gene --;Mutations in cardiac myosin heavy-chain genes cause familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy --;The membrane proteins of the overloaded and senescent heart --;Contraction frequency dependence of twitch and diastolic tension in human dilated cardiomyopathy --;Alterations of the force-frequency relationship in the failing human heart depend on the underlying cardiac disease --;Pathophysiology of cardiac hypertrophy and failure of human working myocardium: Abnormalities in calcium handling --;Ca2+-currents and intracellular [Ca2+]I, -transients in single ventricular myocytes isolated from terminally failing human myocardium --;Dynamic calcium requirements for activation of human ventricular muscle calculated from tension-independent heat --;The calcium-release channel from cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum: Function in the failing and acutely ischaemic heart --;Immune-mediated modulation of sarcoplasmic reticulum function in human dilated cardiomyopathy --;Calcium uptake by sarcoplasmic reticulum and its modulation by cAMP-dependent phosphorylation in normal and failing human myocardium --;Contractile proteins and sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium-ATPase gene expression in the hypertrophied and failing heart --;Extracellular matr --;Factors associated with reactive and reparative fibrosis of the myocardium --;The extracellular matrix in the failing human heart --;Mitochondrial function --;Dysfunction of the ADP/ATP carrier as a causative factor for the disturbance of the myocardial energy metabolism in dilated cardiomyopathy --;Adenine nucleotide metabolism and contractile dysfunction in heart failure --;Biochemical aspects, animal experiments, and human studies --;Achievements of the Symposium --;Cellular and molecular alterations in the failing human heart.

The myocardium in heart failure: Cellular and subcellular alterations in the failing human myocardium. Multiple causes or underlying disorders of the heart have to be differentiated from heart failure itself, which often results in exceedingly difficult diagnoses.

Cardiology.

Human physiology.

Medicine.

edited by G. Hasenfuss, Ch. Holubarsch, H. Just, N.R. Alpert.

Ch Holubarsch

G Hasenfuss

H Just

N R Alpert

[Book]

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