Microcirculation [electronic resource] / edited by Ronald F. Tuma, Walter N. Durán, Klaus Ley.
Growth in knowledge about the microcirculation has been explosive with the field becoming fragmented into numerous sub-disciplines and subspecialties. This volume pulls all of the critical information into one volume eliminating the need to search through numerous books and journals which can be exh...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier/Academic Press,
2008.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Handbook of physiology (Bethesda, Md.). Cardiovascular system.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: Overview of the microcirculation / Paul C. Johnson
- pt. I: Principles of microvascular structure and function. Blood flow in microvascular networks / Axel R. Pries and Timothy W. Secomb ; Physiology and pathobiology of microvascular endothelium / Jordan S. Pober ; Biology of nitric oxide synthases / Ingrid Fleming ; Microcirculatory exchange function / Walter N. Durán, Fabiola A. Sánchez and Jerome W. Breslin
- Microlymphatic biology / David C. Zawieja, Pierre-Yves von der Weid and Anatoliy A. Gashev
- pt. II: Regulation of the microvascular blood flow. Local regulation of microvascular perfusion / Michael J. Davis, Michael A. Hill and Lih Kuo ; Receptor-mediated events in the microcirculation / Stephanie W. Watts, Nancy L. Kanagy, and Julian H. Lombard
- pt. III: Adaption of the vascular system. Angiogenesis / Mary E. Gerritsen
- pt. IV: Inflammatory and immune functions. The microcirculation in inflammation / Klaus Ley ; Lymphocyte trafficking / Avi N. Kogan and Ulrich H. von Andrian
- pt. V: Microcirculatory specialization in individual organs. The cerebral microcirculation / Ronald F. Tuma ; Regulation of coronary microvascular resistance in health and disease / Cuihua Zhang [and others] ; The renal microcirculation / L. Gabriel Navar [and others]. ; Gastrointestinal and liver microcirculations: roles in inflammation and immunity / Soichiro Miura, Paul Kubes and D. Neil Granger ; The pulmonary microcirculation / Jahar Bhattacharya, Michael Koval and Wolfgang M. Kuebler ; Microcirculation of the ocular fundus / Charles E. RIva and Leopold Schmetterer
- pt. VI: Microcirculation in health and disease. Sickle cell disease / Dhananjay K. Kaul ; Pathophysiology of primary hypertension / Robert M. Carey ; Microvascular consequences of obesity and diabetes / H. Glenn Bohlen.