The Cardiac Lymphatic System An Overview /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Karunamuni, Ganga. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Cardiology.; Cell receptors.; Biological models.; Stem cells.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.; Receptors.; Systems Biology.; Stem Cells.; Biomedicine general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6774-8

The Cardiac Lymphatic System: An Overview provides in-depth coverage of the cardiac lymphatic vessels and the essential nature of their patterning and development in the heart tissue. The volume is organized into three sections: the anatomy of the cardiac lymphatic system, the cardiac lymphatics and...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Anatomy of the Cardiac Lymphatic System
• A General Outline of the Cardiac Lymphatic System
• Development and Patterning of the Cardiac Lymphatic Network
• Part II: The Cardiac Lymphatics and Heart Disease
• The Link between Lymphatic Obstruction and Congenital Heart Disease
• Role of Lymphatics in Atherogenesis, Myocardial Infarction, Congestive Heart Failure, and Cardiac Transplantation
• The Lymphatics in Normal and Pathological Heart Valves
• Myocardial Lymphatic Changes during Terminal Heart Failure
• Imaging the Lymphatic System in Heart Transplantation and Its Immunological Implications
• Part III: Cardiac Lymphatic Signaling
• Tie Receptor Signaling in Cardiac Lymphangiogenesis
• VEGF Receptor Signaling in the Cardiac Lymphatics
• Hypoxia and the Cardiac Lymphatics
• The Potential of the Epicardium to Act as a Source of Lymphatic Cells
• Index.