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Heart Function in Health and Disease

Proceedings of the Cardiovascular Program sponsored by the Council of Cardiac Metabolism of the International Society and Federation of Cardiology during the Regional Meeting of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, Prague, Czechoslovakia, June 30 – July 5, 1991

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Bohuslav Ostadal

    1. Institute of Physiology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechoslovakia

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  2. Naranjan S. Dhalla

    1. Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface General Hospital Research Centre University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine (DICM, volume 140)

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Developing Heart

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Heart Story: A View To the Past

      • O. Poupa
      Pages 3-22

    3. Postnatal Growth and Restructuring of Mammalian Hearts

      • K. Rakusan
      Pages 23-30

    4. Ontogenetic Development of Cardiac Inotropic Responsiveness

      • B. Ostádal, F. Kolár, J. Skovránek, I. Ostádalová
      Pages 31-43

  3. Regulation of Cardiac Channels

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. Activation Mechanisms of Cardiac Muscarinic K Channels

      • H. Heidbüchel, E. Carmeliet
      Pages 47-59

    3. Multiple Cyclic GMP Binding Proteins Involved in the Regulation of Cardiac Calcium Channels

      • R. Fischmeister, P.-F. Mery, S.M. Lohmann, U. Walter
      Pages 61-70

    4. Participation of the Na+-H+ Exchange Pathway in Cardiac Pathology

      • G. N. Pierce, H. Meng
      Pages 71-77

    5. Phospholipase D: A New Avenue to the Phospholipid Signalling Pathways in the Myocardium

      • J. T. A. Meij, V. Panagia
      Pages 79-90

  4. Cardiac Electric Field

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Cardiac Pacemaker Activity: From Single Cells to Modelling the Heart

      • D. Noble, J.C. Denyer, H.F. Brown, R. Winslow, A. Kimball
      Pages 93-110

    3. Physiology of the Cardiac Electric Field

      • I. Ruttkay-Nedecky
      Pages 111-125

    4. Modelling of the Cardiac Electrical Field

      • P. d’Alche
      Pages 127-141

    5. The Temporal Behaviour of the Cardiac Electric Field

      • E. Schubert, A. Patzak, W. Laube
      Pages 143-155

    6. Computer Modelling of Cardiac Arrhythmias

      • M. Malik
      Pages 157-181

  5. Heart In Chronic Hypoxia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Relationship Between Heart Mass and Hemoglobin/Hematocrit at High Altitude — Function or Fallacy?

      • M. T. Kopetzky, S. Daum
      Pages 185-192

    3. Functional Assessment of the Hypertrophic Right Ventricle in the Rat Heart

      • F. Kolár, B. Ostádal, R. Cihák, F. Papousek
      Pages 193-207

    4. Chronic Hypoxia-Induced Right Ventricular Enlargement: Age-Dependent Changes of Collagenous and Non-Collagenous Cardiac Protein Fractions

      • V. Pelouch, B. Ostádal, F. Kolár, M. Milerová, J. Grünermel
      Pages 209-218
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About this book

As the majority of cardiovascular deaths are related to myocardial ischemia, it is necessary to understand the various aspects of ischemic heart disease. In this regard, it is noteworthy that ischemic heart disease is commonly associated with atherosclerosis, coronary spasm, as well as thrombosis leading to the development of arrhythmias, cardiovascular cell damage, myocardial infarction, cardiac hypertrophy and congestive heart failure. Furthermore, it is also important to appreciate various physiological, electrophysiological and biochemical processes in the normal heart if we are to understand their significance under pathological situations.
Heart Function in Health and Disease has been organized in five sections to provide an outline of a complex problem in a convenient manner. One section of this book is devoted to shedding light on the restructuring and ontogenic changes in the developing heart whereas in the next section some hypertrophic alterations due to chronic hypoxia are described. The third and fourth sections of this book are concerned with the regulation of cardiac channels as well as signal transduction mechanisms and cardiac electric field. The fifth section contains some pathophysiological events during the development of cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure. All of these areas encompass a significant body of new information that will be invaluable to those who work in the field of cardiovascular sciences, as well as those who treat people with heart disease.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Physiology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechoslovakia

    Bohuslav Ostadal

  • Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface General Hospital Research Centre University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

    Naranjan S. Dhalla

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Heart Function in Health and Disease

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Cardiovascular Program sponsored by the Council of Cardiac Metabolism of the International Society and Federation of Cardiology during the Regional Meeting of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, Prague, Czechoslovakia, June 30 – July 5, 1991

  • Editors: Bohuslav Ostadal, Naranjan S. Dhalla

  • Series Title: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3090-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2052-4Published: 31 January 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6350-7Published: 13 July 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-3090-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-9842

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 335

  • Topics: Cardiology

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