The Cardiac Lymphatic System

Part I. Anatomy of the Cardiac Lymphatic System

1. A General Outline of the Cardiac Lymphatic System
Marios Loukas, Sameer Shah, Shivayogi Bhusnurmath, Bharti Shivayogi Bhusnurmath, R. Shane Tubbs

2. Development and Patterning of the Cardiac Lymphatic Network
Jörg Wilting, Jörg Männer

Part II. The Cardiac Lymphatics and Heart Disease

3. The Link Between Lymphatic Obstruction and Congenital Heart Disease
Manish Bansal

4. The Role of Lymphatics in Atherogenesis, Myocardial Infarction, Congestive Heart Failure, and Cardiac Transplantation
Shin Lin, Stanley G. Rockson

5. The Lymphatics in Normal and Pathological Heart Valves
Ivana Kholová, Galina Dragneva, Seppo Ylä-Herttuala

6. Therapeutic Applications Targeting the Cardiac Lymphatics in Heart Disease
Jae-Hyeong Park, Jin-Ok Jeong

7. Imaging the Lymphatic System in Heart Transplantation and Its Immunological Implications
Kathryn Brown, Lindsey A. Edwards, Wilson Wong

Part III. Cardiac Lymphatic Signaling

8. Tie Receptor Signaling in Cardiac Lymphangiogenesis
Xianghu Qu, H. Scott Baldwin

9. VEGF Receptor Signaling in the Cardiac Lymphatics
Alexey Dashkevich, Karl B. Lemström, Antti I. Nykänen

10. Hypoxia and the Cardiac Lymphatic System
Todd R. Wuest, P. Charles Lin

11. The Potential of the Epicardium to Act as a Source of Lymphatic Cells
Linda Klotz, Paul Riley

Keywords: Biomedicine, Human Physiology, Receptors, Cardiology, Systems Biology, Stem Cells, Biomedicine general