Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editor, Associate Editors, Artistic Consultant, and Contributors
- Preface
- PART I CONTEXT
- 1 The Endothelium in History
- 2 Introductory Essay: Evolution, Comparative Biology, and Development
- 3 Evolution of Cardiovascular Systems and Their Endothelial Linings
- 4 The Evolution and Comparative Biology of Vascular Development and the Endothelium
- 5 Fish Endothelium
- 6 Hagfish: A Model for Early Endothelium
- 7 The Unusual Cardiovascular System of the Hemoglobinless Antarctic Icefish
- 8 The Fish Endocardium: A Review on the Teleost Heart
- 9 Skin Breathing in Amphibians
- 10 Avian Endothelium
- 11 Spontaneous Cardiovascular and Endothelial Disorders in Dogs and Cats
- 12 Giraffe Cardiovascular Adaptations to Gravity
- 13 Energy Turnover and Oxygen Transport in the Smallest Mammal: The Etruscan Shrew
- 14 Molecular Phylogeny
- 15 Darwinian Medicine: What Evolutionary Medicine Offers to Endothelium Researchers
- 16 The Ancestral Biomedical Environment
- 17 Putting Up Resistance: Maternal–Fetal Conflict over the Control of Uteroplacental Blood Flow
- 18 Xenopus as a Model to Study Endothelial Development and Modulation
- 19 Vascular Development in Zebrafish
- 20 Endothelial Cell Differentiation and Vascular Development in Mammals
- 21 Fate Mapping
- 22 Pancreas and Liver: Mutual Signaling during Vascularized Tissue Formation
- 23 Pulmonary Vascular Development
- 24 Shall I Compare the Endothelium to a Summer's Day: The Role of Metaphor in Communicating Science
- 25 The Membrane Metaphor: Urban Design and the Endothelium
- 26 Computer Metaphors for the Endothelium
- PART II ENDOTHELIAL CELL AS INPUT-OUTPUT DEVICE
- PART III VASCULAR BED/ORGAN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
- PART IV DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
- PART V CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
- Index
- Plate section
24 - Shall I Compare the Endothelium to a Summer's Day: The Role of Metaphor in Communicating Science
from PART I - CONTEXT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editor, Associate Editors, Artistic Consultant, and Contributors
- Preface
- PART I CONTEXT
- 1 The Endothelium in History
- 2 Introductory Essay: Evolution, Comparative Biology, and Development
- 3 Evolution of Cardiovascular Systems and Their Endothelial Linings
- 4 The Evolution and Comparative Biology of Vascular Development and the Endothelium
- 5 Fish Endothelium
- 6 Hagfish: A Model for Early Endothelium
- 7 The Unusual Cardiovascular System of the Hemoglobinless Antarctic Icefish
- 8 The Fish Endocardium: A Review on the Teleost Heart
- 9 Skin Breathing in Amphibians
- 10 Avian Endothelium
- 11 Spontaneous Cardiovascular and Endothelial Disorders in Dogs and Cats
- 12 Giraffe Cardiovascular Adaptations to Gravity
- 13 Energy Turnover and Oxygen Transport in the Smallest Mammal: The Etruscan Shrew
- 14 Molecular Phylogeny
- 15 Darwinian Medicine: What Evolutionary Medicine Offers to Endothelium Researchers
- 16 The Ancestral Biomedical Environment
- 17 Putting Up Resistance: Maternal–Fetal Conflict over the Control of Uteroplacental Blood Flow
- 18 Xenopus as a Model to Study Endothelial Development and Modulation
- 19 Vascular Development in Zebrafish
- 20 Endothelial Cell Differentiation and Vascular Development in Mammals
- 21 Fate Mapping
- 22 Pancreas and Liver: Mutual Signaling during Vascularized Tissue Formation
- 23 Pulmonary Vascular Development
- 24 Shall I Compare the Endothelium to a Summer's Day: The Role of Metaphor in Communicating Science
- 25 The Membrane Metaphor: Urban Design and the Endothelium
- 26 Computer Metaphors for the Endothelium
- PART II ENDOTHELIAL CELL AS INPUT-OUTPUT DEVICE
- PART III VASCULAR BED/ORGAN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
- PART IV DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
- PART V CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
- Index
- Plate section
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- Endothelial Biomedicine , pp. 197 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007