Arterial Remodeling: A Critical Factor in Restenosis Book

	List of Contributors
	Preface
	Foreword
	Restenosis: prevention of a complete stabilizing remodeling response following direct interventions on plaques	3
	Constrictive remodeling: do concepts of remodeling during chronic hypertension apply to restenosis?	21
	Growth and remodeling of coronary collateral vessels	31
	Experimental evidence of remodeling after angioplasty	51
	Remodeling: accelerator or decelerator of luminal narrowing in human atherosclerotic arteries	69
	Histologic basis of vessel remodeling after various interventional procedures: a comparison of acute (cracks, breaks, tears, stretching) and chronic (tissue proliferation, recoil) changes	81
	Serial Intravascular ultrasound evidence for arterial remodeling as a mechanism of restenosis following interventional coronary procedures	111
	Coronary blood flow during interventional procedures: implications for vascular remodeling	127
	Restenosis and remodeling: is the adventitia involved?	161
	Post-angioplasty smooth muscle cell apoptosis	181
	Intimal hyperplasia is the wrong target: restenosis as a failure of remodeling	199
	Endothelial dysfunction after angioplasty: a pathway for remodeling?	231
	Vascular remodeling and lesion formation in restenosis: Implications for nitric oxide-based therapeutics	255
	Oxidative stress and vascular remodeling	277
	Matrix metalloproteinases in injured artery	305
	Influence of angioplasty on matrix signalling and metabolism	339
	Intimal lesion growth: an assessment of important cellular events	375
	The effects of oxidized lipids and lipoproteins on arterial growth, remodeling and restenosis	389
	Oncogenes after angioplasty	407
	Blood flow, shear stress and remodeling of the artery wall	417
	Inflammatory mechanisms of remodeling in injured arteries	439
	Effect of tensile stress in vascular remodeling	453
	Coronary remodeling and interventional strategies	471
	Stent: a mechanical approach for remodeling inhibition	505
	Pharmacologic perspectives of remodeling inhibition	519
	Gene polymorphism and restenosis	535
	Gene transfer and vascular remodeling	549
	Index	557