Cardiac Regeneration

This Volume of the series Cardiac and Vascular Biology offers a comprehensive and exciting, state-of-the-art work on the current options and potentials of cardiac regeneration and repair.
Several techniques and approaches have been developed for heart failure repair: direct injection of cells, programming of scar tissue into functional myocardium, and tissue-engineered heart muscle support. The book introduces the rationale for these different approaches in cell-based heart regeneration and discusses the most important considerations for clinical translation. Expert authors discuss when, why, and how heart muscle can be salvaged.
The book represents a valuable resource for stem cell researchers, cardiologists, bioengineers, and biomedical scientists studying cardiac function and regeneration.

Maskai Ieda is Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Wolfram H. Zimmermann is Professor and Director of the Institute of Pharmacology, Heart Research Center Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany.