Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Neuro-Cardiac Interactions
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Cellular Pathology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 407
Special Issue Editors
Interests: disease mechanisms of genetic and acquired cardiac arrythmias; structure and function of cardiac sympathetic innervation; study of the dynamics of second messengers in different cardiac cell types (i.e., Ca2+ and cAMP); cardiac and neuronal optogenetics; dynamics of intercellular communication between neurons and cardiac cells
Interests: disease mechanisms in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy; disease mechanisms in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; mechanisms of intercellular communication between sympathetic neurons and cardiac cells; mechanisms of inter-organ communication (i.e., brain-heart; muscle-to-heart communication)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The heart receives continuous input from the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system, which orchestrate the complex myocardial adaptation to both physiologic and pathologic stresses, involving both myocyte and non-myocyte components. Autonomic neurons, at the same time, respond to heart-derived signals which regulate their trophism, function and distribution. Such double-stranded bond between neurons and heart is underlain by functional and structural mechanisms and inter-cellular interactions, whose identification has progressively extended the realm of neurocardiology beyond the fight-or-flight domain.
This special issue aims to collect Original Research, Review, Methods, and Perspective articles addressed on role, mechanisms and routes of neuro-cardiac communication in cardiovascular physiology or pathology. Articles focused on neurogenic interactions with myocyte and non-myocyte myocardial cellular entities, including e.g., vascular, mesenchymal, and Schwann cells are welcome.
Additional sub-themes for this Research Topic may include:
- Cardiac neuro-immunology
- Autonomic comparative neuroanatomy
- Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system in myocardial remodeling
- Stress dependent myocardial adaptation
Dr. Marco Mongillo
Dr. Zaglia Tania
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cardiac autonomic nervous system
- cell-cell communication in the heart
- cardiac response to stresses
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