Development of Cardiovascular Systems
Subtitle: Molecules to Organisms
Contributors: Constance Weinstein (Foreword); Warren W. Burggren (Editor); Bradley B. Keller (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780521560726
Subjects: Animal physiology; Cardiovascular medicine; Cellular development; embryology; Growth; Cardiovascular System Physiology; Developmental Biology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Cardiology; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Cardiovascular system--Growth; Science / Developmental Biology; growth & development; Cardiovascular System
First sentence: Along with the evolution of the closed chordate circulation, which contains blood at relatively high pressures, came the evolution of a highly muscular heart with valves separating low- and high-pressure chambers and of a vasculature lined throughout by endothelium (see Chapter 9).