Cross-Talk Between Cardiac Muscle and Coronary Vasculature.

The article focuses on the mechanical factors that contribute to the two-way interactions between cardiac muscle and coronary vasculature. It offers an introduction on the functional arrangement of cardiac muscle and vasculature and discusses the effect of the cardiac muscle on the coronary vasculature. It discusses the mechanisms of cross-talk and their relation to existing experimental data and the role of extracellular matrix in mechanical cross-talk.