Preface - Markus Hecker and Dirk Duncker
1) Hemodynamics and vascular remodeling - Timothy Secomb, Tuscon
2) The biomechanics of venous remodeling - Hanna KUK, Christina Jeanneret, Thomas Noppeney and Thomas Korff, Heidelberg
3) New kids on the block: the emerging role of YAP/TAZ in vascular cell mechano-
transduction - Karl Swärd, Sebastian Albinsson and Catarina Rippe, Lund and Stefano Piccolo, Padua
4) GPCRs und flow and pressure - Ursula Storch, Thomas Gudermann and Michael Mederos y Schnitzler, München
5) Biomechanics in small artery remodeling - Erik Bakker and Ed van Bavel, Amsterdam
6) Contributions of wall stretch and shear stress to vascular regulation: Molecular mechanisms of homeostasis and expansion - Ranganath Maringanti, Elana Meijer, Maarten M Brandt, Dirk J. Duncker and Caroline Cheng, Rotterdam
7) Mechanobiology of lymphatic vessels - Anish Mukherjee and Brendon Dixon, Atlanta
8) Hemodynamic control of endothelial cell fates in development - Hanna M Peacock, Margo Daems and Elizabeth AV Jones, Leuven
9) Mechanical regulation of epigenetic modifications in vascular biology and pathobiology - Shu-Yi Wei and Jeng-Jiann Chiu, Taipeh
10) Mechanosensing and mechanotransduction in pulmonary hypertension - Siyu Tian, Jarno J Steenhorst, Kim van der Heiden and Daphne Merkus, Rotterdam
11) Mechanobiology of arterial hypertension - Cor de Wit, Lübeck
12) Mechanobiology of atherosclerosis - Andreas H Wagner, Heidelberg
13) Exploitation of vascular mechanobiology for cardiovascular therapy - Wei Tan, Boulder, CO
About the Author: Prof. Markus Hecker is Managing Director of the Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Heidelberg University, Germany.Prof. Dirk Jan Duncker, PhD, MD is an established PI in the field of cardiovascular research and heart failure and head of the department of experimental cardiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
