Vascular Dynamics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Keynote Address

   1. Keynote Address

      • Perry L. Blackshear Jr.

      Pages 1-4

3. Conduit and Resistive Vessel Dynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-8

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   2. Arterial Compliance — Physiological Viewpoint

      • Frank C. P. Yin, Zhaorong Liu

      Pages 9-22

   3. Neuro Humoral Control

      • Massimo Pagani, Ornella Rimoldi, Raffaello Furlan, Alberto Malliani

      Pages 23-35

   4. Compliance and Aging

      • David R. Gross

      Pages 37-47

   5. Pulse Propagation in the Systemic Arterial Tree

      • Ricky D. Latham

      Pages 49-67

   6. Reduced Models of the Systemic Arterial Circulation

      • Roberto Burattini

      Pages 69-85

   7. Peripheral Vascular Compliance

      • Dali J. Patel, Bernell R. Coleman, Russell J. Tearney, LaVal N. Cothran, Charles L. Curry

      Pages 87-94

   8. Small Vessel Compliance May Explain Peripheral Pressure-Flow Relations

      • Nico Westerhof, Rob Braakman, Pieter Sipkema

      Pages 95-107

   9. Pressure, Flow and Vessel Wall Stress Distribution in the Entrance Region of an Artery: A Mathematical Model Study

      • Ren-Jing Cen, Ned H. C. Hwang

      Pages 109-121

4. Endothelium and Isolated Vessels

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-124

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   2. Compliance of Isolated Resistance Vessels from Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

      • Michael J. Mulvany

      Pages 125-134

   3. Endothelial Cell-Basement Membrane Interactions

      • C. James Kirkpatrick, Helma Rixen, Thomas Axer, Ursula Schmitz, Guenter Hollweg, Doris Klee et al.

      Pages 135-148

   4. Endothelium in Hemostasis and Thrombosis

      • Philip G. de Groot, Hetty C. de Boer, Pim N. M. Tijburg, Jaap Jan Zwaginga

      Pages 149-159

   5. Role of Endothelial Cells in the Control of Vascular Tone

      • Rudi Busse, Ulrich Pohl

      Pages 161-175

   6. Endothelium — Influenced Vasomotion: Models and Measurements

      • T. M. Griffith

      Pages 177-193

5. Atherogenesis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-196

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   2. Shear Stress in Atherogenesis

      • Morton H. Friedman

      Pages 197-201

   3. Vessel Wall Compliance and Transient Fluid Movement

      • Perry L. Blackshear Jr., Gertrude L. Blackshear, Paul F. Emerson

      Pages 203-217

The function of the vascular system is to transport oxygen and nutrients to the cells and to remove carbon dioxide and metabolites. It also transports hormones and locally produced neurohumoral substances which, in part, regulate its own function. These interrelationships are essential to homeostasis. The vascular system is not an assembly of simple (elastic) tubes but a dynamic system with many external and intrinsic regulatory mechanisms. The endothelium plays a major role in the intrinsic regulation of the system. The system is also often subject to disease processes of which atherosclerosis is the most important. As a result of atherosclerosis, and other disease processes, replacement of vessels with prosthetic devices may be required to reestablish adequate tissue blood flow. It is therefore imperative to gain insight into the details of vascular function, especially the dynamics, and the endothelium, the processes of atherosclerosis development, the vascular prosthetic possibilities and, last but not least, the interrelationships between these sub-specialties.

• cells
• endothelium
• regulation
• surgery
• tissue

• Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  N. Westerhof

• Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

  D. R. Gross

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