Control and regulation of transport phenomena in the cardiac system
By: edited by Samuel Sideman, Rafael Beyar, and Amir Landesberg.
Contributors: Sideman, S.; Beyar, Rafael.; Landesberg, Amir.; Ṭekhniyon, Makhon ṭekhnologi le-Yiśraʼel.; International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer.
Series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- v. 1123
Publisher: Published by Blackwell Pub. on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781573317061
Subjects: Cardiovascular system -- Physiology -- Congresses.; Biological transport -- Congresses.; Cardiovascular Physiology -- Congresses.; Biological Transport -- physiology -- Congresses.; Cardiovascular Diseases -- physiopathology -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Contains papers presented at the 5th Larry & Horti Fairberg Workshop on Control and Regulation of Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems with Special Emphasis on the Cardiac System, held Sept. 16-20, 2007 in Antalya, Turkey, and organized by the Technicon-Israel Institute of Technology and the International Centre for Heat amd Mass Transfer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The death of transcriptional chauvinism in the control and regulation of cardiac contractility / by Sakthivel Sadayappan and Jeffrey Robbins; value: Genetic mechanisms controlling cardiovascular development / by Jamie Bentham and Shoumo Bhattacharya; value: MicroRNAs control gene expression : importance for cardiac development and pathophysiology / by Daniele Catalucci, Michael V.G. Latronico, and Gianluigi Condorelli; value: Neonatal and adult cardiovascular pathophysiological remodeling and repair : development role of periostin / by Russell A. Norris ... [et al.]; value: The missing link in the mystery of normal automaticity of cardiac pacemaker cells / by Edward G. Lakatta, Tatiana M. Vinogradova, and Victor A. Maltsev; value: Shear fluid-induced Ca²+ release and the role of mitochondria in rat cardiac myocytes / by Steve Belmonte and Martin Morad; value: Cardiac cell hypertrophy in vitro : role of calcineurin/NFAT as Ca²+ signal integrators / by Matilde Colella and Tullio Pozzan; value: The role of Ca²+ in coupling cardiac metabolism with regulation of contraction : in silico modeling / by Yael Yaniv ... [et al.]; value: Sarcomere mechanics in uniform and nonuniform cardiac muscle : a link between pump function and arrhythmias / by Henk E.D.J. ter Keurs ... [et al.]; value: Modulation of cardiac performance by motor protein gene transfer / by Todd J. Herron, Eric J. Devaney, and Joseph M. Metzger; value: Atrial-selective sodium channel block as a strategy for suppression of atrial fibrillation / by Alexander Burashnikov ... [et al.]; value: Molecular basis of cardiac action potential repolarization / by Yoram Rudy; value: Intracellular transport : from physics to; value: biology / by Aurélien Roux ... [et al.]; value: Linking cellular energetics to local flow regulation in the heart / by James B. Bassingthwaighte; value: Regulation of endothelial junctional permeability / by Emily Vandenbroucke ... [et al.]; value: Controlling cardiac transport and plaque formation / by Ze'ev Aronis ... [et al.]; value: Multiscale and modular analysis of cardiac energy metabolism : repairing the broken interfaces of isolated system components / by Johannes H.G.M. van Beek; value: Discovering regulators of the drosophila cardiac hypoxia response using automated phenotyping technology / by Jacob D. Feala ... [et al.]; value: Multi-scale model of 0₂ transport and metabolism : response to exercise / by Haiying Zhou ... [et al.]; value: Mapping preconditioning's signaling pathways : an engineering approach / by James M. Downey, Thomas Krieg, and Michael V. Cohen; value: The identity and regulation of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore : where the known meets the unknown / by Magdalena Juhaszova ... [et al.]; value: Control of cardiac rate by "funny" channels in health and disease / by Andrea Barbuti and Dario DiFrancesco; value: Experimental molecular and stem cells therapies in cardiac electrophysiology / by Lior Gepstein; value: Controlling ischemic cardiovascular disease : from basic mechanisms to clinical management / by Rafael Beyar.