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Nicholas Sperelakis
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Department of Physiology, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, USA
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Table of contents (40 chapters)
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Cardiac Muscle
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- Michael S. Forbes, Nicholas Sperelakis
Pages 3-42
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- H. Irisawa, A. Noma, S. Kokubun, Y. Kurachi
Pages 97-107
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- Alexandre Fabiato, Clive Marc Baumgarten
Pages 215-254
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- Michihiko Tada, Munekazu Shigekawa, Yasuharu Nimura
Pages 255-277
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- Matthew N. Levy, Paul J. Martin
Pages 337-354
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- August M. Watanabe, Jon P. Lindemann
Pages 377-404
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- Theodore M. Brody, Tai Akera
Pages 405-419
About this book
could go on for several pages. Thus the book edited This book emphasizes the fundamental, functional aspects of cardiology. Within the last thirty years, by Sperelakis IS a potent reminder of the almost for the rift between clinical and investigative cardiology gotten fact that cardiology has twO sites, inextrica has widened, because of the overwhelming devel bly related. opment of new clinical procedures, both diagnostic The book deals with subjects in which Dr. Sper and therapeutic. Almost forgotten is the fact that elakis has pioneered: ultrastructure of heart muscle, we owe most of the clinical advances to theoretical electrophysiology, cardiac contractility, and ion ex and experimental observations. I need not remind change. An extension of these subjects is the chapter the reader of the work of Carrel, who performed the dealing with fundamental topics of the coronary cir first experimental coronary bypass in 1902, or the culation. work of the brothers Curie in 1880, both physicists, This book is indeed a timely reminder of the im who discovered piezoelectricity, the keystone in ech portance of the fundamental aspects of cardiology. ogradiography; of the works of Langley, who intro Emphasis on clinical aspects of cardiology alone will duced the receptors concept; of Ahlquist in 1946, result in a sterile and unproductive future for a field who first differentiated between alpha and beta re that has made such stunning advances during the ceptors; of Fleckenstein, a physiologist who pi last thirty years to the benefit of millions of people.
Reviews
`It is a book worth reading and presents an outstanding overview about the present day knowledge in the field whih has been thankfully put together in this edited version by Sperelakis. This book deserves to be recommended for those who are interested in the biochemistry, biochemical physiology, pharmacology and pathophysiology of the heart.'
Heart and Circulation, 19:9 (1985)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Physiology, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, USA
Nicholas Sperelakis
