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- Editors:
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N. Westerhof
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Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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D. R. Gross
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Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Conduit and Resistive Vessel Dynamics
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- Frank C. P. Yin, Zhaorong Liu
Pages 9-22
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- Massimo Pagani, Ornella Rimoldi, Raffaello Furlan, Alberto Malliani
Pages 23-35
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- Dali J. Patel, Bernell R. Coleman, Russell J. Tearney, LaVal N. Cothran, Charles L. Curry
Pages 87-94
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- Nico Westerhof, Rob Braakman, Pieter Sipkema
Pages 95-107
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- Ren-Jing Cen, Ned H. C. Hwang
Pages 109-121
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Endothelium and Isolated Vessels
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Front Matter
Pages 123-124
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- C. James Kirkpatrick, Helma Rixen, Thomas Axer, Ursula Schmitz, Guenter Hollweg, Doris Klee et al.
Pages 135-148
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- Philip G. de Groot, Hetty C. de Boer, Pim N. M. Tijburg, Jaap Jan Zwaginga
Pages 149-159
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Atherogenesis
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Front Matter
Pages 195-196
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- Perry L. Blackshear Jr., Gertrude L. Blackshear, Paul F. Emerson
Pages 203-217
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
N. Westerhof
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Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
D. R. Gross