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Heart Development and Regeneration

1st Edition - May 28, 2010

Editors: Nadia Rosenthal, Richard P. Harvey

eBook ISBN:

9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 8 1 3 3 3 - 6

The development of the cardiovascular system is a rapidly advancing area in biomedical research, now coupled with the burgeoning field of cardiac regenerative medicine. A lucid… Read more

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The development of the cardiovascular system is a rapidly advancing area in biomedical research, now coupled with the burgeoning field of cardiac regenerative medicine. A lucid understanding of these fields is paramount to reducing human cardiovascular diseases of both fetal and adult origin. Significant progress can now be made through a comprehensive investigation of embryonic development and its genetic control circuitry.

Heart Development and Regeneration, written by experts in the field, provides essential information on topics ranging from the evolution and lineage origins of the developing cardiovascular system to cardiac regenerative medicine. A reference for clinicians, medical researchers, students, and teachers, this publication offers broad coverage of the most recent advances.

Volume One discusses heart evolution, contributing cell lineages; model systems; cardiac growth; morphology and asymmetry; heart patterning; epicardial, vascular, and lymphatic development; and congenital heart diseases.

Volume Two includes chapters on transcription factors and transcriptional control circuits in cardiac development and disease; epigenetic modifiers including microRNAs, genome-wide mutagenesis, imaging, and proteomics approaches; and the theory and practice of stem cells and cardiac regeneration.

Volume 1

1.1 Evolutionary Origins of Hearts

1.2 Development and Aging of the Drosophila Heart

1.3 Cardiac Development in the Frog

1.4 Cardiac Development in the Zebrafish

1.5 An Overview of Avian Heart Structure and Development

2.1 The Specification of Myocardial Progenitor Cells in the Ciona Tadpole

2.2 The Secondary Heart Field

2.3 Patterning and Development of the Conduction system of the Heart

3.1 The Behaviour of Cells that Form the Myocardial Compartments of the Heart3.2 The Ballooning Model for Formation of Cardiac Chambers

3.3 Retinoids and Heart Development

3.4 A System for Describing Congenital Cardiac Malformations and Correlating Them With Abnormal Cardiac Development

4.1 Cardiac Left-Right Asymmetry

4.2 Molecular Mechanisms of Left/Right Development

4.3 Pitx2 in Cardiac Left Right Asymmetry and Human Disease

5.1 Epicardial Lineage: Origins and Fates

5.2 The Epicardial Signaling Center in Development and Disease

6.1 Molecular Regulation of Cushion Morphogenesis

6.2 Signalling Pathways in Valve Formation: Origins of Congenital Defects

7.1 Role of Cardiac Neural Crest Cells in Morphogenesis of the Heart and Great Vessels

7.2 Role of Cardiac Neural Crest in the Development of the Caudal Pharyngeal Arches, the Cardiac Outflow and Disease

8.1 Origin of the Vertebrate Endothelial Cell Lineage: Ontogeny and Phylogeny

8.2 Vascular Development

8.3 Arterio-Venous Patterning in the Vascular System

8.4 Lymphatic Vascular Development

Volume 2

1.1 NK-2 Class Homeodomain Proteins: Conserved Regulators of Cardiogenesis

1.2 GATA4 in Heart Development and Disease

1.3 Serum Response Factor and Cofactors, Roles in Cardiac Development

1.4 T-box Factors

1.5 Myocyte Enhancer Factor 2 Transcription Factors in Heart Development and Disease

2.1 Chromatin Modification and Remodeling in Heart Development

2.2 Histone Deacetylases in Cardiovascular Development and Disease

2.3 MicroRNA Regulation of Cardiac Development and Disease

3.1 Genomic Analysis in the Developing and Diseased Heart

3.2 Exploring Congenital Cardiovascular Anomalies with ENU Mutagenesis

3.3 Imaging Cardiac Developmental Malformations in the Mouse Embryo

3.4 Proteomic Strategies for Cardiac Transcription Factor Identification

3.5 Proteomic Analysis of MEF2 Post-Translational Regulation in the Heart

4.1 The Evolution of Regeneration

4.2 Cardiac Regeneration in the Zebrafish Model System

5.1 Detection and Identification of Tissue Stem Cells: Tracking an Elusive Prey

5.2 Human Cardiomyocytes from Embryonic Stem Cells: Windows to Human Biology and Elements for Regeneration

6.1 Adult Stem Cell-Based Therapy for the Heart

6.2 Cell Therapy for Recapitulation of Vascular Network Formation and Functional Heart Muscle Recovery After Myocardial Ischaemia

6.3 Cardiac Regeneration and Ageing

6.4 Genetic Enhancement of Cardiac Regeneration