The Cardiac Lymphatic System : An Overview - Karunamuni, Ganga; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Part I: Anatomy of the Cardiac Lymphatic System -- A General Outline of the Cardiac Lymphatic System -- Development and Patterning of the Cardiac Lymphatic Network -- Part II: The Cardiac Lymphatics and Heart Disease -- The Link between Lymphatic Obstruction and Congenital Heart Disease -- Role of Lymphatics in Atherogenesis, Myocardial Infarction, Congestive Heart Failure, and Cardiac Transplantation -- The Lymphatics in Normal and Pathological Heart Valves -- Myocardial Lymphatic Changes during Terminal Heart Failure -- Imaging the Lymphatic System in Heart Transplantation and Its Immunological Implications -- Part III: Cardiac Lymphatic Signaling -- Tie Receptor Signaling in Cardiac Lymphangiogenesis -- VEGF Receptor Signaling in the Cardiac Lymphatics -- Hypoxia and the Cardiac Lymphatics -- The Potential of the Epicardium to Act as a Source of Lymphatic Cells -- Index.
Keywords: Human physiology; Proteins .; Cardiology; Systems biology; Stem cells; Medicine; Human Physiology; Receptors; Cardiology; Systems Biology; Stem Cells; Biomedicine, general