The abdominal aortic aneurysm:genetics, pathophysiology, and molecular biology

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Tilson M. David.; Kuivaniemi Helena.; Upchurch Gilbert R.
Published: Blackwell Pub. on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences,
Publisher Address: Boston, Mass.
Publication Dates: 2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, ; v. 1085
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Carrier Form: xvii, 411 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9781573316576 (alk. paper)
1573316571 (alk. paper)
Index Number: R543
CLC: R543.1-532
R735-532
R543.102-532
Call Number: R543.1-532/A135/2006
Contents: "Result of a conference entitled The abdominal aortic aneurysm: genetics, pathophysiology, and molecular biology, held on April 3-5, 2006 in New York City"--P. [vii].
Includes bibliographical references and index.
5050 Epidemiology of aortic aneurysm repair in the United States from 1993 to 2003 -- The abdominal aortic aneurysm. Genetics, pathophysiology, and molecular biology. Proceedings of a conference. April 3-5, 2006. New York, New York, USA -- A biomechanics-based rupture potential index for abdominal aortic aneurysm risk assessment: demonstrative application -- The long-term relationship of wall stress to the natural history of abdominal aortic aneurysms (finite element analysis and other methods) -- A summary of the contributions of the VA cooperative studies on abdominal aortic aneurysms -- Pharmacological approaches to prevent abdominal aortic aneurysm enlargement and rupture -- Should usual criteria for intervention in abdominal aortic aneurysms be "downsized," considering reported risk reduction with endovascular repair? -- Pathophysiology of abdominal aortic aneurysms: insights from the elastase-induced model in mice with different genetic backgrounds -- Regression of abdominal aortic aneurysm by inhibition of c-Jun N-terminal kinase in mice -- Role of the renin-angiotensin system in the development of abdominal aortic aneurysms in animals and humans -- AAA disease: mechanism, stratification, and treatment -- Refinements in mathematical models to predict aneurysm growth and rupture -- Abdominal aortic aneurysm as a complex multifactorial disease: interactions of polymorphisms of inflammatory genes, features of autoimmunity, and current status of MMPs -- The intraluminal thrombus as a source of proteolytic activity -- Activators of plasminogen and the progression of small abdominal aortic aneurysms -- Is there a role for the macrophage 5-lipoxygenase pathway in aortic aneurysm development in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice? -- Do cathepsins play a role in abdominal aortic aneurysm pathogenesis? -- Matrix metalloproteinase-2: the forgotten enzyme in aneurysm pathogenesis -- Current status of endovascular repair of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms in the context of 50 years of conventional repair -- Aortic aneurysm, thoracoabdominal aneurysm, juxtarenal aneurysm, fenestrated endografts, branched endografts, and endovascular aneurysm repair -- Vibrometry: a novel noninvasive application of ultrasonographic physics to estimate wall stress in native aneurysms -- Combining open and endovascular approaches to complex aneurysms -- Engineering improvements in endovascular devices: design and validation -- Abdominal aortic aneurysm is a specific antigen-driven T cell disease -- Genes predisposing to rapid aneurysm growth -- Genetic basis of thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections: potential relevance to abdominal aortic aneurysms -- Structural and functional genetic disorders of the great vessels and outflow tracts -- Genome-wide approach to finding abdominal aortic aneurysm susceptibility genes in humans -- The candidate gene approach to susceptibility for abdominal aortic aneurysm: TIMP1, HLA-DR-15, ferritin light chain, and collagen XI-Alpha-1 -- Aneurysm Outreach Inc., a nonprofit organization, offers community-based, ultrasonography screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms -- Diffusion of Alexa Fluor 488-conjugated dendrimers in rat aortic tissue -- Hypoxia at the site of abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture is not associated with increased lactate -- Gene expression profile of abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture -- Increased angiogenesis at the site of abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture -- Aortic aneurysms as a source of circulating interleukin-6 -- Circulating cytokines in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms -- Endothelial progenitor cells and abdominal aortic aneurysms -- Increasing evidence for immune-mediated processes and new therapeutic approaches in abdominal aortic aneurysms--a review -- Pathogenesis of thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms -- Attenuation of experimental aortic aneurysm formation in P-selectin knockout mice -- Global expression profiles in human normal and aneurysmal abdominal aorta based on two distinct whole genome microarray platforms -- Thoracic aortic compliance as a determinant of rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms -- Female gender attenuates cytokine and chemokine expression and leukocyte recruitment in experimental rodent abdominal aortic aneurysms -- Features and genomic origins of matrix cell adhesion molecules-1 and -2 expressed by fibroblasts of human aortic adventitial origin -- Arterial aneurysms in HIV patients: molecular mimicry versus direct infection? -- HLA-DQA is associated with abdominal aortic aneurysms in the Belgian population -- Toward a model for local drug delivery in abdominal aortic aneurysms -- Gender-related differences in the tensile strength of abdominal aortic aneurysm -- Identification of c-Jun N-terminal kinase as a therapeutic target for abdominal aortic aneurysm.