The development of the cardiovascular system is a rapidly advancing area inbiomedical research now coupled with the burgeoning field of cardiacregenerative medi... » 

The development of the cardiovascular system is a rapidly advancing area inbiomedical research now coupled with the burgeoning field of cardiacregenerative medicine. A lucid understanding of these fields is paramount toreducing human cardiovascular diseases of both fetal and adult origin.Significant progress can now be made through a comprehensive investigation ofembryonic development and its genetic control circuitry. Heart Development andRegeneration written by experts in the field provides essential informationon topics ranging from the evolution and lineage origins of the developingcardiovascular system to cardiac regenerative medicine. A reference forclinicians medical researchers students and teachers this publicationoffers broad coverage of the most recent advances. Volume One discusses heartevolution contributing cell lineages model systems cardiac growthmorphology and asymmetry heart patterning epicardial vascular and lymphaticdevelopment and congenital heart diseases. Volume Two includes chapters ontranscription factors and transcriptional control circuits in cardiacdevelopment and disease epigenetic modifiers including microRNAs genomewidemutagenesis imaging and proteomics approaches and the theory and practice ofstem cells and cardiac regeneration. «