Preface Contributor's List Chapters: 1) The evolving concept of
oxidative stress Denise de Castro Fernandes, Diego Bonatto, Francisco R.
M. Laurindo 2) Mechanisms of redox signaling in cardiovascular disease
Rebecca L. Charles, Joseph R. Burgoyne and Philip Eaton 3) Reactive
oxygen and nitrogen species in cardiovascular differentiation of stem
cells Heinrich Sauer and Maria Wartenberg§ 4) Reactive Oxygen Species
(ROS) and the sensory neurovascular component Rabea Graepel BSc,
Jennifer Victoria Bodkin BSc, MRes, & Susan Diana Brain BSc, PhD 5)
Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species in Myocardial Pre- and
Post-Conditioning Ariel R. Cardoso, Bruno B. Queliconi* and Alicia J.
Kowaltowski 6) Coenzyme Q9/Q10 and Healthy Heart Samarjit Das, Somak Das
and Dipak K. Das 7) Oxidative and proteolytic stress in homocysteine
associated cardiovascular diseases Karni S. Moshal, Munish Kumar, Neetu
Tyagi, Paras Kumar Mishra, Saumi Kundu, Suresh C. Tyagi 8) Functional
studies of NADPH oxidases in human vasculature Tomasz J Guzik 9)
Relationship of the CYBA gene polymorphisms with oxidative stress and
cardiovascular risk Guillermo Zalba, PhD and Javier Díez, MD, PhD 10)
Redox-related genetic markers of cardiovascular diseases Christian
Delles, MD, and Anna F. Dominiczak, MD 11) NADPH oxidases and
blood-brain barrier dysfunction in stroke Timo Kahles, MD, Sabine
Heumüller and Ralf P. Brandes, MD 12) Smoking-Induced Oxidative Stress
in the Pathogenesis of Cardiovascular Diseases David Bernhard PhD 13)
Oxidative Stress in Vascular Aging Anna Csiszar, MD, PhD and Zoltan
Ungvari, MD, PhD 14) Oxidative Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in
Diabetes Mellitus Divya Gupta, Kathy K. Griendling and W. Robert Taylor
15) Reactive Oxygen Species, Oxidative Stress and Hypertension Rhian M
Touyz MD, PhD, Andreia Chignalia, MSc, Mona Sedeek PhD 16) Peripartum
cardiomyopathy: Role of STAT-3 and reactive oxygen species Denise
Hilfiker-Kleiner, PhD, Arash Haghikia, MD, andAndres Hilfiker, PhD 17)
Oxidative stress and inflammation after coronary angiography Raymond
Farah MD 18) Oxidative Stress in Cardiac Transplantation Galen M.
Pieper, Ph.D. and Ashwani K. Khanna, Ph.D 19) Oxidative Stress and
Atrial Fibrillation Ali A. Sovari and Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. 20)
Oxidative stress and the anti-oxidative capacity in myocardial
infarction Yao Sun, MD, Ph.D. 21) Oxidative Stress and Redox Signalling
in Cardiac Remodelling Min Zhang MD, PhD, Alex Sirker MRCP and Ajay M
Shah MD, FmedSci 22) Oxidative Stress and Cardiovascular Fibrosis
Subramanian Pennathur, Louise Hecker, and Victor J. Thannickal 23)
Oxidative Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Women M.
Gago-Dominguez, Xuejuan Jiang, J. Esteban Castelao 24) Protective
effects of food on cardiovascular diseases Alfonso Giovane, Biol.D.,
Ph.D., and Claudio Napoli, M.D., Ph.D., MBEth. 25) Novel Synthetic
Antioxidants and Nitrated Lipids: From Physiology to Therapeutic
Implications Gloria V. López, PhD and Homero Rubbo, PhD 26) Thioredoxin
in the cardiovascular system - towards a thioredoxin-based
anti-oxidative therapy Bradford C. Berk 27) The protective effect of
melatonin on the heart Amanda Lochner 28) Exercise Induced
cardioprotection: Overview with an emphasis on the role of anti-oxidants
Karyn L. Hamilton and John C. Quindry 29) Antioxidative properties of
statins in the heart Oliver Adam MD, Ulrich Laufs MD
