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Issue 1123 coverControl and Regulation of Transport Phenomena in the Cardiac System Volume 1123 published March 2008
Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1123: xx–xli (2008). doi: 10.1196/annals.1420.001
Copyright © 2008 by the New York Academy of Sciences
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Preface

Cardiac Control Pathways: Signaling and Transport Phenomena

SAMUEL SIDEMANa

a Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Key Words: environmental stimuli • signaling pathways • transport phenomena • control mechanisms • transmembrane transport

Address for correspondence: Professor Sam Sideman, DSc, DScHon, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, IIT, Haifa, Israel 32000. Fax: +9724 829 4599.  Sam{at}bm.technion.ac.il

ABSTRACT

Signaling is part of a complex system of communication that governs basic cellular functions and coordinates cellular activity. Transfer of ions and signaling molecules and their interactions with appropriate receptors, transmembrane transport, and the consequent intracellular interactions and functional cellular response represent a complex system of interwoven phenomena of transport, signaling, conformational changes, chemical activation, and/or genetic expression. The well-being of the cell thus depends on a harmonic orchestration of all these events and the existence of control mechanisms that assure the normal behavior of the various parameters involved and their orderly expression. The ability of cells to sustain life by perceiving and responding correctly to their microenvironment is the basis for development, tissue repair, and immunity, as well as normal tissue homeostasis. Natural deviations, or human-induced interference in the signaling pathways and/or inter- and intracellular transport and information transfer, are responsible for the generation, modulation, and control of diseases. The present overview aims to highlight some major topics of the highly complex cellular information transfer processes and their control mechanisms. Our goal is to contribute to the understanding of the normal and pathophysiological phenomena associated with cardiac functions so that more efficient therapeutic modalities can be developed. Our objective in this volume is to identify and enhance the study of some basic passive and active physical and chemical transport phenomena, physiological signaling pathways, and their biological consequences.






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