Overview
- Each chapter provides the fundamentals and new developments, to focus the book towards both the novice and the expert
- Offers thorough insight into the rapidly emerging and growing field of cardiovascular immunology
- Contributors comprise a good mix of immunologists and vascular biologists
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1003)
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About this book
Cardiovascular immunology is a newly emerging research area, investigating the crosstalk between the cardiovascular and the immune system. This crosstalk is evident through (1) crucial immunological capacities and functions of cardiovascular cell types, including cardiomyocytes, fibroblasts, endothelial cells, pericytes and cardiac resident macrophages, (2) the impact of aberrant immune function on the development of cardiovascular disease such as atherosclerosis, direct and indirect immune-mediated heart disease and vasculitis, and (3) the crucial role of the immune system in cardiac repair and regeneration.
The Immunology of Cardiovascular Homeostasis and Pathology covers all these aspects of cardiovascular immunology, starting with homeostatic immunological functions of traditional cardiovascular cell types, and moving then to the role of the immune system in cardiovascular pathology and to recent research into targeting the immune system to boost cardiac healing and regeneration.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Immune System in Tissue and Organ Homeostasis
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Immune Functions and Properties of Resident Cells in the Heart and Cardiovascular System
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The Immune System in Cardiovascular Pathology
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The Immune System in Repair and Regeneration After Myocardial Infarct
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susanne Sattler, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Teresa Kennedy-Lydon, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Teresa Kennedy-Lydon, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Immunology of Cardiovascular Homeostasis and Pathology
Editors: Susanne Sattler, Teresa Kennedy-Lydon
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57613-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57611-4Published: 10 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86207-1Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57613-8Published: 30 June 2017
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 283
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Immunology, Cardiology, Laboratory Medicine