Biophysics of the Failing Heart

1. Introduction to the Biophysics of the Failing Heart
R. John Solaro, Jil C. Tardiff

2. Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca Homeostasis and Heart Failure
Aleksey V. Zima, Dmitry Terentyev

3. Ca-Homeostasis and Heart Failure: Focus on the Biophysics of Surface Membrane Ca-Fluxes
Kathrin Banach

4. Biophysics of Membrane Currents in Heart Failure
Man Liu, Vikram Maddikunta Brahmanandam, Samuel C. Dudley

5. Biophysical Mechanisms for the Metabolic Component of Impaired Heart Function
E. Douglas Lewandowski

6. Cytoskeletal Nuclear Links in the Cardiomyocyte
Elizabeth McNally

7. Biophysical Forces Modulate the Costamere and Z-Disc for Sarcomere Remodeling in Heart Failure
Allen M. Samarel, Yevgeniya Koshman, Erik R. Swanson, Brenda Russell

8. Heart Failure: The Final Frontier for Biophysics in Cardiovascular Medicine?
Luis F. Santana

9. Arrhythmogenesis, Heart Failure, and the Biophysics of Z-Band Protein Networks
M. Vatta, R. John Solaro

10. Biophysics of Titin in Cardiac Health and Disease
Brian R. Anderson, Henk L. Granzier

11. Sarcomeres and the Biophysics of Heart Failure
Jillian N. Simon, Jil C. Tardiff, Beata M. Wolska

Keywords: Physics, Biophysics and Biological Physics, Cardiology, Medical and Radiation Physics, Biomedical Engineering