Molecular cardiology : methods and protocols / edited by Zhongjie Sun.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to methods in molecular cardiology / Zhongjie Sun -- Gene therapy approaches to cardiovascular disease / J. Mark Jones and Walter J. Koch -- Gene therapy for myocardial ischemia using hypoxia inducible double plasmid / Yi Tang -- Cardiac gene delivery using dna-adenoviral constructs / J. Mark Jones and Walter J. Koch -- Manipulation of neuronal nitric oxide synthase within the paraventricular nucleus using adenovirus and antisense technology / Yi-Fan Li ... [et al.] -- TAT-mediated protein transduction: delivering biologically active proteins into the heart / Asa B. Gustafson, Roberta A. Gottlieb, and David J. Granville -- Expression of human eNOS in cardiac and endothelial cells / Xiuqing Wang and Zhongjie Sun -- Strategies of conditional gene expression in myocardium: an overview / Heather Heine ... [et al.] -- Gene silencing method using adenoviral RNAi vector -- In cardiomyocytes and vascular smooth muscule cells / Hideko Kasahara and Hiroki Aoki -- Cardiac commitment of embryonic cells for myocardial repair / Dana Zeineddine ... [et al.] -- Autologous mesenchymal stem cells for post ischemic myocardial repair / Yao Liang Tang -- Cellular therapy with autologous skeletal myoblasts for ischemic heart disease and heart failure / Yao Liang Tang -- Protocols for myocardial infarction repair using fetal cardiac myocytes / Sharon Etzion ... [et al.] -- Methods for examining stem cells in post ischemic and transplanted hearts / Nana Rezai ... [et al.] -- Endothelial progenitor cell/ex vivo expansion and gene transfer / Hideki Iwaguro and Takayuki Asahara -- Delineation of sequences essential for specific promoter activation during pressure overloaded hypertrophy or factor-induced hypertrophy / Chellam Rajamanickam and Radhakrishnan Jeejabai -- Evaluation of cardiac isoform of 2 macroglobulin as a factor inducing cardiac hypertrophy / Chellam Rajamanickam and Radhakrishnan Jeejabai -- Detection of apoptosis in cardiovascular diseases / Arwen Hunter, Jonathan C. Choy, and David J. Granville -- Detection of cardiac signaling in the injured and hypertrophied heart / Xiaoning Si ... [et al.] -- Affymetrix oligonucleotide analysis of gene expression in the injured heart / Bobby Yanagawa ... [et al.] -- Identification and validation of loci and candidate genes -- Linked to cardiac hypertrophy / Bastien Llamas and Christian F. Deschepper -- Induction and analysis of cardiac hypertrophy in transgenic animal models / Marcos E. Barbosa, Natalia Alenina, and Michael Bader -- Methods for the detection of altered -adrenergic signaling pathways in hypertrophied hearts / Matthew J. Wolf, Hideo Takibana, and Howard A. Rockman -- Transgenic mouse models for cardiac dysfunction by a specific genetic manipulation / Gopal J. Babu and Muthu Periasamy -- Cardiomyocyte defects in diabetic models and protection with cardiac-targeted transgenes / Xia Shen ... [et al.] -- Protocols for cardiac-specific overexpression of angiotensin II type 1 receptor in transgenic rats / Sigrid Hoffmann.