Main description:

Emphasizes the research activities of Germany's Nauheim Institute of the Max Planck Society and its group of investigators both past and present, in the field of collateral artery growth.

Incorporates a multidisciplinary in vivo approach to the study of arteriogenesis that includes molecular approaches with classical physiology and immunohistochemistry.

Full color throughout and well illustrated.

Contents:

List of Contributors
1. Introduction; Wolfgang Schaper
2. Embryonic Development of Collateral Arteries; Borja Fernandez
3. Structural Remodeling during Growth of Collateral Vessels; Wei-jun Cai, Dimitri Scholz, Tibor Ziegelhoeffer and Jutta Schaper
4. Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Shawn Wagner, Armin Helisch and Tibor Ziegelhoeffer
5. Physical Forces and their Translation into Molecular Mechanisms; Wolfgang Schaper, Frederic Pipp, Dimitri Scholz, Stefanie Boehrn, Elisabeth Deindl, Miroslav Barancik, Inka Eitenmueller, Tibor Ziegelhoeffer, Alexander Kluge and Thomas Schmitz-Rixen
6. Role of Hypoxia/Ischemia/VEGF-A, and Strain Difference; Elisabeth Deindl, Armin Helisch, Dimitri Scholz, Matthias Heil, Shawn Wagner and Wolfgang Schaper
7. Monocytes and Cytokines; Matthias Heil and Elisabeth Deindl
8. Bone Marrow-Derived Cells; Tibor Ziegelhoeffer, Sawa Kostin, Borja Fernandez, Matthias Heil and Wolfgang Schaper
9. Cell-Cell and Cell-Matrix Interactions; Borja Fernandez and Kerstin Broich
10. Fibroblast Growth Factors; Rene Zimmermann, Borja Fernandez, Alexandra Buehler, Alessandra Martire, Sawa Kostin, Claudia Strohm, Swen Wolfram and Elisabeth Deindl
11. Signal Transduction Pathways in Smooth Muscle Cells; Sabina Vogel, Thomas Kubin, Miroslav Barancik, Elisabeth Deindl, Dietmar von der Ahe and Rene Zimmermann
12. Expression Profiling of Growing Collateral Arteries/Hunting for New Genes; Rene Zimmermann, Kerstin Boengler, Andreas Kampmann, Borja Fernandez, Elisabeth Deindl and Wolfgang Schaper
13. Theory of Arteriogenesis; Wolfgang Schaper
14. Effects of Physical Activity; Swen Wolfram
15. Cerebral Arteriogenesis; Ivo R. Buschmann, Hans-Joerg Busch, Edda Schneeloch and Konstantin-Alexander Hossmann
16. The Coronary Collateral Circulation in Man Post-mortem and Clinical Studies; William F.M. Fulton and Niels van Royen 17. Function of the Coronary Collateral Circulation in Man; Christian Seiler
18.Collateral Circulation in Clinical Practice; Ralf Ritter
19. Arteriogenesis and Atherosclerosis: Strange Bedfellows; Niels van Royen and Wolfgang Schaper