Note: Potassium Channels in Cardiovascular Biology -- Editor's page -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Part I Molecular Biology of Potassium Channels -- Chapter 1 Evolution of Potassium Channel Proteins -- Chapter 2 Three-Dimensional Structure of the K+ Channel Pore: Basis for Ion Selectivity and Permeability -- Chapter 3 Molecular Biology of Voltage-Gated K+ Channels -- Chapter 4 Molecular Biology of High-Conductance, Ca2+-Activated Potassium Channels -- Chapter 5 Molecular Biology of Inward Rectifier and ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channels -- Part II Potassium Channel Expression and Function -- Chapter 6 Design and Use of Antibodies for Mapping K+ Channel Expression in the Cardiovascular System -- Chapter 7 Molecular Methods for Evaluation of K+ Channel Expression and Distribution in the Heart -- Chapter 8 Concepts for Patch-Clamp Recording of Whole-Cell and Single-Channel K+ Currents in Cardiac and Vascular Myocytes -- Chapter 9 The Patch-Clamp Technique for Measurement of K+ Channels in Xenopus Oocytes and Mammalian Expression Systems -- Chapter 10 Heteromultimer Formation in Native K+ Channels -- Chapter 11 Use of Transgenic and Gene-Targeted Mice to Study K+ Channel Function in the Cardiovascular System -- Part III Pharmacology of Potassium Channels -- Chapter 12 Pharmacology of Voltage-Gated K+ Channels -- Chapter 13 Pharmacology of High-Conductance, Ca2+-Activated Potassium Channels -- Chapter 14 Pharmacology of Small-Conductance, Calcium-Activated K+ Channels -- Chapter 15 Molecular Pharmacology of ATP-Sensitive K+ Channels: How and Why? -- Part IV Potassium Channels in the Heart -- Chapter 16 Overview: Molecular Physiology of Cardiac Potassium Channels -- Chapter 17 Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Functional Voltage-Gated K+ Channel Diversity and Expression in the Mammalian Heart. , Chapter 18 Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels in the Myocardium -- Chapter 19 Inward Rectifying and ATP-Sensitive K+ Channels in the Ventricular Myocardium -- Chapter 20 Cholinergic and Adrenergic Modulation of Cardiac K+ Channels -- Chapter 21 Cardiac K+ Channel Expression and Function at Birth and in the Neonate -- Chapter 22 Overview: Physiological Role of K+ Channelsin the Regulation of Vascular Tone -- Chapter 23 Modulation of Vascular K+ Channels by Extracellular Messengers -- Chapter 24 Delayed Rectifier K+ Channels of Vascular Smooth Muscle: Characterization, Function, and Regulation by Phosphorylation -- Chapter 25 Potassium Channels in the Circulation of Skeletal Muscle -- Chapter 26 Regulation of Cerebral Artery Diameter by Potassium Channels -- Chapter 27 The Role of Potassium Channels in the Control of the Pulmonary Circulation -- Chapter 28 Potassium Channels in the Renal Circulation -- Chapter 29 Potassium Channels in the Coronary Circulation -- Chapter 30 Vascular K+ Channel Expression and Function at Birth and in the Neonate -- Part VI Potassium Channels in the Endothelium -- Chapter 31 Overview: Potassium Channels in Vascular Endothelial Cells -- Chapter 32 Single-Channel Properties of Ca2 +-Activated K+ Channels in the Vascular Endothelium -- Chapter 33 Endothelial Cell K+ Channels, Membrane Potential and the Release of Vasoactive Factorsfrom the Vascular Endothelium -- Chapter 34 Activation of Vascular Smooth Muscle K+ Channels by Endothelium-Derived Factors -- Part VII Potassium Channels in Cardiac Disease -- Chapter 36 The Molecular Basis of the Long QT Syndrome -- Chapter 37 Altered K+ Channel Expression in theHypertrophied and Failing Heart -- Chapter 38 Role of ATP-Sensitive K+ Channels in Cardiac Preconditioning -- Chapter 39 Therapeutic Potential of ATP-Sensitive K+ Channel Openers in Cardiac Ischemia. , Part VIII Potassium Channels in Vascular Disease -- Chapter 40 Altered Expression and Function of Kv Channels in Primary Pulmonary Hypertension -- Chapter 41 Anorectic Drugs and the Vasculature -- Chapter 42 Induction of Ca2+-Activated K+ Channel Expression during Systemic Hypertension: Protection against Pathological Vasoconstriction -- Chapter 43 Antisense Approaches and the Modulation of Potassium Channel Function in the Cardiovascular System -- Index.