Francis J. Manasek

ForewordIt is quite appropriate to say, in introducing the contributions made at a Symposium sponsored by the United States-Japan Cooperative Science Program, that there always has been a very close relationship between those in Japan and the United States who have studied the heart cells and its...

Preface The first edition of the Handbook of Physiology section on Circulation appeared between 1962 and 1965. This publication of the American Physiological Society consisted of three volumes that covered many aspects of the physiology of the heart and circulation. Since that time knowledge has...