Meet the editor

Dr. Angelos Tsipis holds a diploma in medicine (MD) from the Medical School at University "TorVergata," Rome, Italy, and also received a PhD from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He is a cardiologist at Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece, and a research scientist at the First Department of Pathology at the Medical School, University of Athens, Greece. His interests cover cardiomyopathies and specif-

ically cardiovascular pathology and molecular cardiology. He has received six prizes for best research achievement at international and national congresses. Dr. Tsipis has published more than 120 scientific papers in international and national journals and conference proceedings, and edited two monographs and textbooks. He is a member of the editorial board of six scientific journals, a reviewer of 10 journals, and a member of international and national medical societies.

Contents

**Section 1**

and Disease *by Angelos Tsipis*

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

*and Nisha Arenja*

**Preface III**

Myocardial Ischemia **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 7**

**Chapter 3 21**

Myocardial Genetics **37**

**Chapter 4 39** Current Pathophysiological and Genetic Aspects of Dilated Cardiomyopathy

**Chapter 5 63**

Myocardial Metabolics **85**

**Chapter 6 87**

**Chapter 7 99**

Roles of Trans and ω Fatty Acids in Health; Special References to Their

Differences between Japanese and American Old Men *by Akikazu Takada, Fumiko Shimizu and Shinji Koba*

Introductory Chapter: Cardiomyocyte - Fundamental Unit of Heart Life

Right Heart Adaptation to Left Ventricular STEMI in Rats

*by Deborah P. Schild, Sascha I. Ricciardi, Jens G. Hellige, Rolf Vogel* 

*by Rolf Schreckenberg and Klaus-Dieter Schlüter*

Myocardial Infarction and Circadian Rhythm *by Ivana Škrlec, Svjetlana Marić and Aleksandar Včev*

Modelling of Genetic Cardiac Diseases

Obesity-Related Myocardiopathy *by Marco Antonio Lopez Hernandez*

*by Chandra Prajapati and Katriina Aalto-Setälä*
