I. General Principles of Molecular Cardiology Chapter 1:
Biotechnology and Cardiovascular Medicine: Recombinant Protein
Therapy (Hiroshi Ashikaga, Kenneth R. Chien) Chapter 2: Human
Genome Project and Cardiovascular Disease Genes (CC Liew, Victor
J. Dzau) Chapter 3: Model Organisms for Cardiac Disease Gene
Discovery (Calum A. Macrae, Mark C. Fishman) Chapter 4:
Generation and Cloning of Genetically Modified Animals (Leon J.
DeWindt, Pieter A. Doevendans, Kenneth R. Chien) Chapter 5:
Mouse Models of Human Cardiovascular Disease (Geir Christensen,
Ju Chen, John Ross, Jr., Kenneth Chien) Chapter 6: Towards Stem
Cell Therapy (Pieter A. Doevendans, Christine Mummery, Kenneth
Chien) Chapter 7: Cardiovascular Signaling Pathways (Susan F.
Steinberg, Michael Karin, Joan Heller Brown) Chapter 8: Genetic
Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease (Carl J. Vaughan, Craig T.
Basson) Chapter 9: Gene Transfer Approaches for Cardiovascular
Disease (Elizabeth Nabel) II. Cardiac Development and Congenital
Heart Disease Chapter 10: Cardiac Development and Congenital
Heart Disease (Deepak Srivastava, Eric N. Olson) Chapter 11:
Development of Pacemaking and Cardiac Conduction System Lineages
(Robert G. Gourdie, Steven W. Kubalak, Terrence X. O묪rien,
Kenneth R. Chien, Takashi Mikawa) Chapter 12: Cardiac Laterality
and Congenital Heart Disease (Pilar Ruiz-Lozano, Angel Raya,
Kenneth R. Chien, Juan Carlos Izpisua-Belmonte) Chapter 13:
Pharyngeal Apparatus and Cardiac Neural Crest Defects (Antonio
Baldini) Chapter 14: Monogenic Causes of Congenital Heart
Disease (Joachim P. Schmitt, Christine E. Seidman) III. Cardiac
Muscle Diseases Chapter 15: Molecular Pathways for Cardiac
Hypertrophy and Heart Failure Progression (Masahiko Hoshijima,
Susumu Minamisawa, Hideo Yasukawa, Kenneth R. Chien) Chapter 16:
Molecular Genetics of Inherited Cardiomyopathies (Christopher
Semsarian, J.F. Seidman, and Christine E. Seidman) Chapter 17:
Molecular Pathways for Dilated Cardiomyopathy (K. Campbell)
Chapter 18: Excitability and Conduction (Michael J. Ackerman,
David E. Clapham) Chapter 19: Cardiac Arrhythmias: Inherited
Molecular Mechanisms (Steve A. N. Goldstein, Mark T. Keating,
Michael C. Sanguinetti) IV. Atherogenesis Chapter 20:
Inflammation and Immunity in Atherogenesis (Peter Libby, G?an
K. Hansson and Jordan S. Pober) Chapter 21: Molecular Biology of
Lipoproteins and Dyslipidemias (Sotirios Tsimikas, Vincent
Mooser) Chapter 22: Lipoprotein Oxidation, Macrophages, Immunity
and Atherogenesis (Sotirios Tsimikas, Christopher K. Glass,
Daniel Steinberg and Joseph L. Witztum) Chapter 23: Cellular
Cholesterol Metabolism in Health and Disease (Ira Tabas) V.
Ischemic Diseases and Angiogenesis Chapter 24: Angiogenesis in
Cardiovascular Disease (Karen S. Moulton, Judah Folkman) Chapter
25: Coronary Restenosis (Hiroshi Ashikaga, Ori Ben-Yehuda,
Kenneth R. Chien) Chapter 26: Molecular Basis for the Potential
Use of NMDA Receptor Open-Channel Blockers in the Treatment of
Cerebral Ischemia and Other Brain Insults (Stuart A. Lipton,
Stephen F. Heinemann) VI. Thrombosis Chapter 27: Platelets and
Anti-Platelet Therapy in Cardiovascular Disease: Molecular
Mechanisms (Ori Ben-Yehuda) Chapter 28: Blood Coagulation and
Atherothrombosis (Hiroshi Ashikaga, Kenneth R. Chien) Chapter
29: Thrombosis and Thrombolytic Therapy (H.R. Lijnen, H.
Pannekoek, J. Vermylen) VII. Hypertension Chapter 30: Molecular
Targets of Antihypertensive Drug Therapy (Edwin W. Williems,
Ahsan Husain, Robert M. Graham) Chapter 31: Mechanisms and
Molecular Pathways in Hypertension (Roger Brown, John Mullins,
David J. Webb) VIII. Environmental and Genetic Modifiers of
Cardiovascular Disease Chapter 32: Molecular Biology of
Transplantation and Xenotransplantation (Patrick Hildbrand,
Daniel R. Salomon) Chapter 33: Viral Infections of the Heart
(Kirk U. Knowlton, Herv?Duplain) IX. Glossary: Resources