Overview: The chapters in this volume are the Proceedings of theSatellite Symposium of the XVIth World Congress of the InternationalSociety for Heart Research on `Signal Transduction in Normal andDiseased Myocardium‘ which was held in Rotterdam at the Faculty ofMedicine & Health Sciences of the Erasmus University, June 30 and July1, 1995. .Diverse and distinct auto-, para-, and endocrine stimuli arriving atthe surface of endothelium, smooth muscle cells, cardiomyocytes andfibroblasts within the myocardium, engage cell type-specificreceptors, which lead to transmission of signals across the cel
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