Auteur: Nobuakira Takeda

Over the past three decades, impressive progress in the field of pathogenesis, prevention and therapy of ischemic heart disease has resulted in a marked decline in mortality in the Western World. How …

Pathophysiology of Heart Failure brings together leading basic scientists and clinicians, presenting new approaches to this complex problem, involving cardiomyopathic processes and ischemia perfusion …

Current evidence suggests that the ischemic preconditioning response is a multi-factorial process consisting of an initial early trigger, an intermediate mediator, and an end effector. Each of these …

Whenever the heart is challenged with an increased work load for a prolonged period, it responds by increasing its muscle mass–a phenomenon known as cardiac hypertrophy. Although cardiac hypertrophy …