Special Article
Toward Molecular Strategies for Heart Disease
Past, Present, Future
1997 年 61 巻 2 号 p. 91-118
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1997 年 61 巻 2 号 p. 91-118
The past two decades of cardiovascular biology and medicine have been based largely upon the consideration of the heart and vasculature as an integrated physiological system, a view that has resulted in major therapeutic advances. With the advent of developments in gene transfer, mouse and human genetics, genetic engineering of intact animals, and molecular and cellular technology, cardiovascular medicine is now on the threshold of a molecular therapeutic era1. Major steps have been taken toward unraveling the molecular determinants of complex, integrative, and polygenic cardiovascular disease states, including atherogenesis, hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy and failure, congenital heart disease, and coronary restenosis following balloon angioplasty. Our improved understanding of the fundamental basis of these important cardiovascular disease processes has established a scientific foundation for diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic advances in the mainstream of cardiovascular medicine. (Jpn Circ J 1997; 61: 91 - 118)
