Table of contents for Molecular cardiology : methods and protocols / edited by Zhongjie Sun.

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Contents
Preface	v
List of Contributors	xi
PART I. INTRODUCTION
1		Introduction to Methods in Molecular Cardiology
Zhongjie Sun	3
PART II. GENE TRANSFER AND GENE THERAPY FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
2		Gene Therapy Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease
J. Mark Jones and Walter J. Koch	xxx
3		Gene Therapy for Myocardial Ischemia Using Hypoxia-Inducible Double Plasmid
Yi Tang	xxx 
4		Cardiac Gene Delivery Using DNA-Adenoviral Constructs
J. Mark Jones and Walter J. Koch	xxx
5		Manipulation of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase 
Within the Paraventricular Nucleus Using Adenovirus 
and Antisense Technology 
Yi-Fan Li, Yu Wang, Keith M. Channon, Harold D. Schultz,
Irving H. Zucker, and Kaushik P. Patel	xxx
6		TAT-Mediated Protein Transduction: Delivering Biologically 
Active Proteins into the Heart 
Asa B. Gustafson, Roberta A. Gottlieb, and David J. Granville	xxx 
7		Expression of Human eNOS in Cardiac and Endothelial Cells 
Xiuqing Wang and Zhongjie Sun	xxx
8		Strategies of Conditional Gene Expression in Myocardium: 
An Overview 
Heather Heine, Hon Sing Leong, Fabio Rossi, 
Bruce M. McManus, Thomas J. Podor	xxx 
9		Gene Silencing Method Using Adenoviral RNAi Vector 
in Cardiomyocytes and Vascular Smooth Muscule Cells		 
Hideko Kasahara and Hiroki Aoki	xxx
PART III. CELLULAR THERAPY FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
10		Cardiac Commitment of Embryonic Cells for Myocardial Repair 
Dana Zeineddine, Evangelia Papadimou, Annabelle Mery, 
Claudine Menard, and Michel Puceat	xxx
11		Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Post Ischemic 
Myocardial Repair 
Yao Liang Tang	xxx
12		Cellular Therapy With Autologous Skeletal Myoblasts 
for Ischemic Heart Disease and Heart Failure 
Yao Liang Tang	xxx
13		Protocols for Myocardial Infarction Repair Using Fetal Cardiac Myocytes
Sharon Etzion, Radka Holbova, Liron Miller, 
and Jonathan Leor	xxx
14		Methods for Examining Stem Cells in Post Ischemic and Transplanted Hearts 
Nana Rezai, Hubert Walinski, Alexandra Kerjner, 
Lubos Bohunek, Fabio M.V. Rossi, Bruce M. McManus, 
and Thomas J. Podor	xxx
15		Endothelial Progenitor Cell/Ex Vivo Expansion and Gene Transfer 
Hideki Iwaguro and Takayuki Asahara	xxx
PART IV. GENE ANALYSIS IN THE INJURED AND HYPERTROPHIED HEART
16		Delineation of Sequences Essential for Specific Promoter 
Activation During Pressure Overloaded Hypertrophy 
or Factor-Induced Hypertrophy
Chellam Rajamanickam and Radhakrishnan Jeejabai	xxx
17		Evaluation of Cardiac Isoform of _-2 Macroglobulin 
as a Factor Inducing Cardiac Hypertrophy
Chellam Rajamanickam and Radhakrishnan Jeejabai	xxx
18		Detection of Apoptosis in Cardiovascular Diseases
Arwen Hunter, Jonathan C. Choy, and David J. Granville	xxx
19		Detection of Cardiac Signaling in the Injured and Hypertrophied 
Heart
Xiaoning Si, Maziar Rahmani, Ji Yuan, and Honglin Luo	xxx
20		Affymetrix Oligonucleotide Analysis of Gene Expression 
in the Injured Heart
Bobby Yanagawa, Lydia Taylor, Theresa Deisher, Raymond Ng, George Schreiner, Timothy 
J. Triche, Decheng Yang, 
and Bruce McManus	xxx
21		Identification and Validation of Loci and Candidate Genes 
Linked to Cardiac Hypertrophy 
Bastien Llamas and Christian F. Deschepper	xxx
22		Induction and Analysis of Cardiac Hypertrophy in Transgenic 
Animal Models
Marcos E. Barbosa, Natalia Alenina, and Michael Bader	xxx
23		Methods for the Detection of Altered _-Adrenergic Signaling 
Pathways in Hypertrophied Hearts
Matthew J. Wolf, Hideo Takibana, and Howard A. Rockman	xxx 
PART V. TRANSGENES IN CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH
24		Transgenic Mouse Models for Cardiac Dysfunction 
by a Specific Genetic Manipulation
Gopal J. Babu and Muthu Periasamy	xxx
25		Cardiomyocyte Defects in Diabetic Models and Protection 
With Cardiac-Targeted Transgenes
Xia Shen, Gang Ye, Naira S. Metreveli, and Paul N. Epstein	xxx
26		Protocols for Cardiac-Specific Overexpression of Angiotensin II 
Type 1 Receptor in Transgenic Rats
Sigrid Hoffmann	xxx
Index	xxx

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Heart -- Diseases -- Molecular aspects -- Laboratory manuals.
Heart -- Molecular aspects -- Laboratory manuals.
Cardiovascular Diseases -- therapy.
Gene Therapy.
Gene Transfer Techniques.
Heart -- physiopathology.