**Meet the editor**

Ines Drenjančević, MD, PhD, is a tenure-track professor of Physiology and Immunology and the Chair of the Institute and Department of Physiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine Osijek, University Josip Juraj Strossmayer Osijek. She obtained her PhD degree in Physiology from the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (2004) and MD degree

(1993) and MS degree (1997) in Clinical Immunology and Allergology from the Faculty of Medicine University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her research has been funded at the national and international level. She is currently a PI of the Croatian Science Foundation project and a co-leader of the National Scientific Centre of Excellence for Personalized Health Care. Her interests include mechanisms of microvascular reactivity, effects of various diets (high salt intake, functional food, microelements) and hyperbaric oxygenation with the common denominator of oxygen sensing and metabolism of arachidonic acid.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Ines Drenjančević

Enrico Camporesi

**Femoral Head Necrosis 9**

Djelic and Predrag Brkic

**Treatment In Vitro 67**

**Diabetic Animal Models 87**

Chapter 7 **Toxic Effects of Hyperbaric Conditions 109**

Edit Gara

Ali Erdal Gunes

**and Molecular Mechanisms 25**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment: Old Treatment with New Understanding 1**

Chapter 2 **Therapeutic Mechanisms of Action for Hyperbaric Oxygen on**

Chapter 3 **Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Traumatic Brain Injury: Cellular**

Chapter 4 **Microcirculation and Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment 47** Fethi Gul, Omer Faruk Boran and Reyhan Arslantas

Chapter 5 **Cell Culture Effects of Altered Oxygen Levels and Hyperbaric**

Chapter 6 **Mechanisms of HBO-Induced Vascular Functional Changes in**

Unfirer, Dijana Kibel and Aleksandar Kibel

Ivana Jukic, Mihael Mišir, Martina Mihalj, Zrinka Mihaljevic, Sanela

Gerardo Bosco, Alex Rizzato, Giuliano Vezzani, Vincenzo Zanon and

Sanja Pekovic, Sanja Dacic, Danijela Krstic, Rada Jeremic, Marina
