An Introduction to Vascular Biology
An Introduction to Vascular Biology
Lucilla Poston, University of London
Michael Schachter, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
Alison W. Halliday, St George's Hospital, London
$113.00
USDThis updated and expanded new edition takes full account of recent 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. 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.
- Fully expanded and updated with the very latest developments in the field
- Uses a multidisciplinary approach to the subject
- Vascular biology is at the forefront of much medical research, with links to many diseases
Reviews & endorsements
"...comprehensive...useful...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." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
"We strongly recommend this high-level publication to all clinicians interested in learning more about the broad field of vascular biology." Acta Cardiologica
Product details
December 2004Adobe eBook Reader
9780511056833
0 pages
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90 b/w illus. 25 tables
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Table of Contents
- 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.
