Thomas F. Lüscher

Preface Harry A.). Struijker Boudier and Giuseppe Ambrosio The microcirculation has several important functions in addition to the supply of nutrients and oxygen within the tissues. It has an important role in the control of blood pressure and in inflammation, and is the site of the earliest...

FOREWORD Advancements in the sciences depend in the main on the burgeoning of knowledge that follows a key discovery. The cardiovascular system is no exception, starting with the publication, in 1628, of William Harvey's classic text, Exercitatio Anatómica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in...

The endothelium plays an important role in the pathophysiology of the circulatory system. The reader's attention therefore is directed towards the possible involvement of these polypeptides in the aetiology of ischaemic heart disease, cerebrovascular accidents, hypertension, atherosclerosis and...