Credits and References


Intellectual Property

We have used many sources (cited below) to research and comprehend the material. Nevertheless, everything posted on this site was created by our Team members as the result of international collaboration between three high-school students. Therefore the content of this site, including but not limited to: text articles, page design, glossary, 3D graphics, animations, videos, Java applets, and CGI scripts, is intellectual property of our team and can not be redistributed, modified or put to commercial use without written permission from us and Advanced Network and Services, Inc.

Credits

We thank people from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, who gave us an opportunity to interview them: Dr. Lee Ann Jenkins, Dr. Jose Suarez, Dr. Thomas Pressley, Luther Swift, Matthew Thingpen and Luann Heartfelt. We are grateful to Dr. Narine Sarvazyan for pictures and movies of cardiomyocytes. We also thank our coaches for helping us and families for their continuous support in this challenging but exciting endeavor.

Citations and References

Permissions

1. Images of myocytes at "/C003758/media/Structure/" from Narine Sarvazyan, Ph.D. July 2000. Personal communication.

References

Electronic Sources: Publications on CD-ROM, Diskette, or Magnetic Tapes

1. Microsoft Encarta '98, Copyright 1993-1994 Microsoft Corporation.

Printed Materials: Part of a book

Arthur C. Guyton. Textbook of Medical Physiology, W.B. Saunders Co/London 1991, pp. 97-116, 255-261.

William T. Keeton. Elements of Biological Science, W.W. Norton & Company Inc. New York, 1973, pp.137-141.

William J. Larson, Essentials of Human Embryology, Churchill Livingstone/New York 1998, Ch7. pp.97-121

Sherwin B. Nuland The Mysteries Within. Simon & Schuster/New York 2000, Ch 8, pp.183 - 206

Rodney Rhoades and Richard Pflanzer. Human Physiology. Saunders College Publishing/Fort Worth 1992, Ch. 18-19, pp. 620 - 698

Irving Robbin and Samule Nisenson. Giants of Medicine. Grosset & Dunlao, Inc. New York, 1962. pp15-19, 23-31, 35-41.

Richard S. Snell. Clinical Anatomy for Medical Students. Little, Brown & Co/Boston 1992, pp.105 - 115.

Arthur J. Vander, James H. Sherman, Dorothy S. Luciano Human Physiology McGraw-Hill, Inc./New York, 1994, pp.409-428

Essential Medical Physiology Ed. Leonard R. Johnson, Lippincott-Raven Publishers/New York 1998, pp.149-227.

Printed Materials: Entire book

Your Heart . Ed. Charles B Clayman. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. New York 1989

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine. Ed. Roy Potter. Cambridge University Press, Trd, 1996

Online Sources

Miami Heart Research Institute, June 1, 1999

http://www.miamiheartresearch.org/. Accessed June - August, 2000

PBS Online, May 9, 2000.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/heart/. Accessed June - August, 2000

Careers in Medicine: A Guide for High School Students, Association of American Medical Colleges, July 31, 2000.

http://www.aamc.org/stuapps/appinfo/guide.htm. Accessed August, 2000

U.S. National Library of Medicine/History of Medicine, 18 July 2000

http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/ihm.html. Accessed August, 2000

Encyclopædia Britannica. August 1999

http://www.eb.com. Accessed August, 2000

Symbols'98 Encyclopedia,

http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia20/2018.html. Accessed July, 2000

The Nobel Prize Internet Archive, 22 Oct 1999

http://www.almaz.com/nobel/. Accessed July, 2000