The Immunology of Cardiovascular Homeostasis and Pathology

Part I. The Immune System in Tissue and OrganHomeostasis

1. The Role of the Immune System Beyond the Fight Against Infection
Susanne Sattler

Part II. Immune Functions and Properties of Resident Cells in the Heart and Cardiovascular System

2. Paying for the Tolls: The High Cost of the Innate Immune System for the Cardiac Myocyte
Anne A. Knowlton

3. Properties and Immune Function of Cardiac Fibroblasts
Milena B. Furtado, Muneer Hasham

4. Endothelial Cells
Caterina Sturtzel

5. Immune Functions and Properties of Resident Cells in the Heart and Cardiovascular System: Pericytes
Teresa Kennedy-Lydon

6. The Role of Cardiac Tissue Macrophages in Homeostasis and Disease
Alexei Ilinykh, Alexander R. Pinto

Part III. The Immune System in Cardiovascular Pathology

7. Atherosclerosis
Mohammed Shamim Rahman, Kevin Woollard

8. Immune-Mediated Heart Disease
Elena Generali, Marco Folci, Carlo Selmi, Piersandro Riboldi

9. Vasculitis in the Central Nervous System
Anastasia Bougea, Nikolaos Spantideas

10. Cardiac Autoimmunity: Myocarditis
William Bracamonte-Baran, Daniela Čiháková

Part IV. The Immune System in Repair and Regeneration After Myocardial Infarct

11. Lymphocytes at the Heart of Wound Healing
Vânia Nunes-Silva, Stefan Frantz, Gustavo Campos Ramos

12. The Innate Immune Response in Myocardial Infarction, Repair, and Regeneration
Rebecca Gentek, Guillaume Hoeffel

Nyckelord: Biomedicine, Immunology, Cardiology, Laboratory Medicine