Exosomes in Cardiovascular Diseases

Part I. Overview

1. The Multifaceted Functions of Exosomes in Health and Disease: An Overview
Claudia Arenaccio, Maurizio Federico

Part II. Basic Aspects of Exosomes

2. Exosomes: Nanocarriers of Biological Messages
Alice Conigliaro, Simona Fontana, Stefania Raimondo, Riccardo Alessandro

3. Functional Role of Cardiovascular Exosomes in Myocardial Injury and Atherosclerosis
Maarten Vanhaverbeke, Diane Gal, Paul Holvoet

Part III. Exosomes as Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Diseases

4. Exosomes as Diagnostic Biomarkers in Cardiovascular Diseases
Felix Jansen, Qian Li

5. Exosomes-Based Biomarkers for the Prognosis of Cardiovascular Diseases
Yihua Bei, Pujiao Yu, Dragos Cretoiu, Sanda Maria Cretoiu, Junjie Xiao

Part IV. Pathological Effects of Exosomes

6. Exosomes as New Intercellular Mediators in Development and Therapeutics of Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy
Qi Huang, Benzhi Cai

7. Dual Behavior of Exosomes in Septic Cardiomyopathy
Valter Vinícius Silva Monteiro, Jordano Ferreira Reis, Rafaelli Souza Gomes, Kely Campos Navegantes, Marta Chagas Monteiro

8. Pathological Effects of Exosomes in Mediating Diabetic Cardiomyopathy
Esam S. B. Salem, Guo-Chang Fan

9. Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: Do Exosomes Play a Role?
Huanyu Gu, Qiying Dai, Zhuyuan Liu, Hongbao Wang, Jianhua Yao, Lei Zhou

10. Vascular Calcification Regulation by Exosomes in the Vascular Wall
Marcel Liberman, Luciana Cavalheiro Marti

Part V. Therapeutic Effects of Exosomes

11. Cardioprotective Effects of Exosomes and Their Potential Therapeutic Use
Shengguang Ding, Jingying Zhang, Qiying Dai, Mengfei Zhao, Haitao Huang, Yiming Xu, Chongjun Zhong

12. Therapeutic Effects of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes in Cardiovascular Disease
Etsu Suzuki, Daishi Fujita, Masao Takahashi, Shigeyoshi Oba, Hiroaki Nishimatsu

13. Exosomes Derived from Embryonic Stem Cells as Potential Treatment for Cardiovascular Diseases
Yao-Hua Song, Lianbo Shao, Yu Zhang, Jin Zhou, Bin Liu, Xiangbin Pan, Yong-jian Geng, Xi-yong Yu, Yangxin Li

14. Cardiac Progenitor-Cell Derived Exosomes as Cell-Free Therapeutic for Cardiac Repair
E. A. Mol, M. J. Goumans, J. P. G. Sluijter

15. Therapeutic Potential of Hematopoietic Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes in Cardiovascular Disease
Jana Radosinska, Monika Bartekova

16. Cardiac Telocyte-Derived Exosomes and Their Possible Implications in Cardiovascular Pathophysiology
Mirca Marini, Lidia Ibba-Manneschi, Mirko Manetti

17. Circulating Exosomes in Cardiovascular Diseases
Yihua Bei, Ting Chen, Daniel Dumitru Banciu, Dragos Cretoiu, Junjie Xiao

18. Therapeutic Effects of Ischemic-Preconditioned Exosomes in Cardiovascular Diseases
Shengguang Ding, Zhiqing Fan, Che Lin, Qiying Dai, Jinzhe Zhou, Haitao Huang, Yiming Xu, Chongjun Zhong

Part VI. Future Prospects

19. Exosomes: Outlook for Future Cell-Free Cardiovascular Disease Therapy
Bahar Barani, Sheeja Rajasingh, Johnson Rajasingh

Nyckelord: Biomedicine, Molecular Medicine, Human Physiology, Cardiology