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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- TOC$Contents -- Preface -- CH$1. Tissue Scarring: Lessons
from Wound Healing -- Wound Healing -- Fetal Wound Healing -- Tissue
Scarring -- CH$2. Pathological Significance of Renal Expression of
Proinflammatory Molecules -- Participants in Renal Inflammation --
Major Mediators Involved in Renal Inflammation -- Leukocyte
Trafficking During Renal Inflammation -- Chemokine Systems in the
Kidney from Acute Injury to Renal Scarring: The Chemokine Cascade --
The MCP-1/CCL2-TGF - Axis: A Common Regulatory Pathway of Chronic
Renal Inflammation Resulting in Renal Scarring -- Molecular Basis of
Inflammation in Various Renal Diseases -- Effectiveness of
Anti-Chemokine/Cytokine Therapy and Its Possible Therapeutic
Implications in Renal Diseases -- CH$3. Oxidative Stress,
Lipoproteins and Angiotensin II: The Unholy Triad in the Pathogenesis
of Renal Fibrosis -- What Generates Oxidative Stress? -- Biological
Effects of Oxidative Stress -- Biological Effects of Oxidative Stress
on Renal Fibrosis -- Oxidative Stress and Changes in Cell Number and
Cell Size -- Oxidative Stress and Proteinuria -- Functional
Consequence of Ang Il-Induced Oxidative Stress in Renal Tissue --
Lipoproteins and Oxidative Stress -- Functional Consequence of
OxLDL-Induced Oxidative Stress in Renal Tissue -- CH$4. Involvement
of NF-B in Renal Inflammation and Sclerosis -- Structure and
Activation Pathways of NF-B -- Origin of NF-B Activation in
Inflammatory Reaction -- Monitoring of NF-B Activation -- Role of
NF-B in the Development of Renal Inflammation -- Role of NF-B in the
Development of Renal Fibrosis -- NF-B Pathway As a Target for New
Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Fibrotic Treatments -- CH$5. Low-Density
Lipoprotein and Glomerulosclerosis -- Effects of Lipoprotein
Abnormalities on the Glomerulus in Experimental Animals -- Effects of
LDL on Mesangial Cells -- Effects of LDL on Glomerular Epithelial
Cells -- CH$6. Molecular Developments in the Treatment of Renal
Fibrosis -- Initiation -- Fibrogenesis -- Treatment Options Available
and Developing -- Future Perspectives -- CH$7. Myocardial Infarction
and Cardiac Fibrogenesis -- Cellular and Molecular Events after
Induction of the Myocardial Infarction -- ECM Assembly -- ECM
Components of Basement Membrane -- Proteoglycans -- Matrix Proteins
-- Mediators Affecting ECM Reformation -- Noninfarct Zone --
Intervention in Infarct Fibrogenesis -- CH$8. Cardiac Fibrosis and
Aging -- Age-Dependent Cardiac Fibrosis -- Why Does Collagen
Accumulate in the Aged Myocardium? -- Attenuation of Myocardial
Stiffness During Aging -- Diastolic Dysfunction and Failure -- CH$9.
Matrix Remodeling and Atherosclerosis Effect of Age -- The Genesis of
the Disease -- Impact of Cell Biology -- Other Etiological Factors --
Role of Immune Factors -- Role of Elastolysis -- Mechanism of
Elastolysis -- Role of Lipids and of Calcium -- Nature of Vascular
Fibrosis -- Role of Proteoglycans -- Role of Receptors -- CH$10.
Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Liver Fibrosis -- Stellate Cell As
a Principal Player of Liver Fibrosis -- Novel Therapeutic Strategy
for Preventing Liver Fibrosis -- CH$11. Recent Therapeutic
Developments in Hepatic Fib

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Physical Description: 216 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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