关键词：2007ESC 动脉粥样硬化 氧化应激编者按：近几年，在新成立的基础心血管病专业委员会和大量的研究组织及相关团体的帮助下，ESC的会议上基础研究的深度和广度有了很大的提高。覆盖各个领域的28个专业论坛，5个特色研究论坛和18个专家研讨会都证实了这种变化。在这些会议上有着众多研究领域的实验性研究能够支持心血管病学的发展。

      With 28 invited Symposia, five Featured Research Symposia and 18 abstract sessions, basic science is a major component of ESC Congress 2007. Axel R. Pries, a member of this year’s Congress Programme Committee, illustrates the ESC’s concept of science from bench to bedside.       I n recent years, the extent and quality of the basic science presented at the conferences of the ESC has improved, with the help of its newly established Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science and a large number of Working Groups and sist