Molecular Cardiology

to Methods in Molecular Cardiology.- Gene Transfer and Gene Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease.- Gene Therapy Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease.- Gene Therapy for Myocardial Ischemia Using the Hypoxia-Inducible Double Plasmid System.- Cardiac Gene Delivery Using DNA-Adenoviral Constructs.- Manipulation of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase Within the Paraventricular Nucleus Using Adenovirus and Antisense Technology.- TAT-Mediated Protein Transduction.- Expression of Human eNOS in Cardiac and Endothelial Cells.- Strategies of Conditional Gene Expression in Myocardium.- Gene Silencing Using Adenoviral RNAi Vector in Vascular Smooth Muscule Cells and Cardiomyocytes.- Stem Cell Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease.- Cardiac Commitment of Embryonic Stem Cells for Myocardial Repair.- Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Post-Ischemic Myocardial Repair.- Cellular Therapy With Autologous Skeletal Myoblasts for Ischemic Heart Disease and Heart Failure.- Protocols for Myocardial Infarction Repair Using Fetal Cardiac Myocytes.- Methods for Examining Stem Cells in Post-Ischemic and Transplanted Hearts.- Endothelial Progenitor Cell Culture and Gene Transfer.- Gene Analysis in the Injured and Hypertrophied Heart.- Delineation of Sequences Essential for Specific Promoter Activation During Pressure Overloaded Hypertrophy or Factor-Induced Hypertrophy.- Evaluation of the Cardiac Isoform of ?2-Macroglobulin as a Factor Inducing Cardiac Hypertrophy.- Detection of Apoptosis in Cardiovascular Diseases.- Detection of Cardiac Signaling in the Injured and Hypertrophied Heart.- Affymetrix Oligonucleotide Analysis of Gene Expression in the Injured Heart.- Identification and Validation of Loci and Candidate Genes Linked to Cardiac Hypertrophy.- Induction and Analysis of Cardiac Hypertrophy inTransgenic Animal Models.- Methods for the Detection of Altered ?-Adrenergic Receptor Signaling Pathways in Hypertrophied Hearts.- Transgenes in Cardiovascular Research.- Transgenic Mouse Models for Cardiac

Molecular Cardiology is the first major collection of techniques for gene therapy and stem cell therapy for heart diseases. The methods include readily reproducible techniques for genetic dissection, signal transduction, and microarray analysis. Many of the protocols employ not only molecular and cell biology techniques, but also in vivo approaches to myocardial repair using different types of stem cells, and include methods for expansion, purification, and genetic modification of stem cells.