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Development of the vascular system / [editors: Jonathan Nugent (organizer) and Maeve O'Connor].
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Symposium on Development of the Vascular System (1983 : Ciba Foundation)
- Series:
- Ciba Foundation symposium ; 100.
- Ciba Foundation symposium ; 100
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Morphogenesis--Congresses.
- Morphogenesis.
- Cardiovascular system--Congresses.
- Cardiovascular system.
- Developmental biology--Congresses.
- Developmental biology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pitman ; Newark, N.J. : Distributed in North American by CIBA Pharmaceutical Co. (Medical Education Department), 1983.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.
- Contents:
- Development of the vascular system; Contents; Chairman's introduction; Control of early embryonic heart morphogenesis: a hypothesis; Discussion; Patterns of vascularization in the developing cerebral cortex; Discussion; The pattern of elastin in the aorta and large arteries of mammals; Discussion; 'Structural autoregulation'-the local adaptation of vascular beds to chronic changes in pressure; Discussion; Physical factors and angiogenesis; Discussion; General discussion I; Vascularization of experimental tumours; Discussion; Role of mast cells in experimental tumour angiogenesis; Discussion
- The role of heparin in angiogenesisDiscussion; Degradation of basement membrane components by vascular endothelial cells: role in neovascularization; Discussion; Inhibition of neovascularization by a cartilage factor; Discussion; General discussion II; Tumour angiogenesis factors; Endothelial cell markers; Morphogenesis; General discussion III; Endothelial cell regeneration in hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia; A hypothesis of atherogenesis; Pathological vascularization of the coronary intima; Discussion; Maldevelopments of the vascular system: clinical conundrums; Discussion
- Index of contributorsSubject index
- Notes:
- "Symposium on Development of the vascular system, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 11-13 January 1983"--Contents page.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613694485
- 9781280784095
- 1280784091
- 9780470720813
- 0470720816
- 9780470718513
- 047071851X
- OCLC:
- 797918507
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