Cardiac Development

ISBN: 9780195178197 出版年：2007 页码：288 Kirby, Margaret L Oxford University Press

This new book is the only in-depth, single-author reference on heart development. Clearly written, with lavish color illustrations, it provides a more clinical, systematic, up-to-date synthesis of the subject than any other volume, spanning the range from classic anatomic studies to recent findings in molecular biology. Author Margaret Kirby posits a unifying understanding of heart tube formation from the cardiogenic fields, and the book covers topics that are often omitted from discussions of heart development, such as myocardial function, cardiac innervation, conduction system development, evolutionary developmental biology of the heart, and myocardial stem cells. The book is beautifully illustrated by Karen Waldo, an artist who has collaborated with Dr. Kirby for many years.