1. Preface

   • Ján Slezák
   • Attila Ziegelhöffer

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1

2. Role of early reperfusion in the induction of adhesion molecules and cytokines in previously ischemic myocardium

   • Gilbert L. Kukielka
   • Keith A. Youker
   • Mark L. Entman

   Part I: Extracellular Matrix and Cardiocyte Interaction Pages: 5 - 12

3. Importance of monocytes/macrophages and fibroblasts for healing of micronecroses in porcine myocardium

   • Dorothée Weihrauch
   • Margarete Arras
   • Jutta Schaper

   Part I: Extracellular Matrix and Cardiocyte Interaction Pages: 13 - 19

4. Cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion molecules in human heart and lung transplants

   • Gustav Steinhoff
   • Axel Haverich

   Part I: Extracellular Matrix and Cardiocyte Interaction Pages: 21 - 27

5. Progression of heart failure: A role for interstitial fibrosis

   • Hani N. Sabbah
   • Victor G. Sharov
   • Sidney Goldstein

   Part I: Extracellular Matrix and Cardiocyte Interaction Pages: 29 - 34

6. Chronic hibernating myocardium: Interstitial changes

   • Jannie Ausma
   • Jack Cleutjens
   • Marcel Borgers

   Part I: Extracellular Matrix and Cardiocyte Interaction Pages: 35 - 42

7. Differences between atrial and ventricular protein profiling in children with congenital heart disease

   • Václav Pelouch
   • Marie Milerová
   • Milan Šamánek

   Part I: Extracellular Matrix and Cardiocyte Interaction Pages: 43 - 49

8. Ventricular remodeling: insights from pharmacologic interventions with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors

   • Sidney Goldstein
   • Victor G. Sharov
   • Hani N. Sabbah

   Part I: Extracellular Matrix and Cardiocyte Interaction Pages: 51 - 55

9. Factors involved in capillary growth in the heart

   • Olga Hudlická
   • Margaret D. Brown
   • Anita Bate

   Part I: Extracellular Matrix and Cardiocyte Interaction Pages: 57 - 68

10. Biomechanical signals in the coronary artery triggering the metabolic processes during cardiac overload

    • Mária Gerová
    • Olga Pecháňová
    • Svatoplute Doležel

    Part I: Extracellular Matrix and Cardiocyte Interaction Pages: 69 - 73

11. Oxidative stress and heart failure

    • Neelam Singh
    • Arvinder K. Dhalla
    • Pawan K. Singal

    Part II: Myocytic Adaptation and Myocardial Injury Pages: 77 - 81

12. Structural and biochemical remodelling in catecholamine-induced cardiomyopathy: comparative and ontogenetic aspects

    • Bohuslav Ošťádal
    • Václav Pelouch
    • Olga Nováková

    Part II: Myocytic Adaptation and Myocardial Injury Pages: 83 - 88

13. Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, left ventricular hypertrophy and fibrosis

    • Wolfgang Linz
    • Gabriele Wiemer
    • Bernward A. Schölkens

    Part II: Myocytic Adaptation and Myocardial Injury Pages: 89 - 97

14. Influence of global ischemia on the sarcolemmal ATPases in the rat heart

    • Norbert Vrbjar
    • Andrej Džurba
    • Attila Ziegelhöffer

    Part II: Myocytic Adaptation and Myocardial Injury Pages: 99 - 103

15. Response of the rat heart to catecholamines and thyroid hormones

    • Heinz-Gerd Zimmer
    • Michael Irlbeck
    • Claudia Kolbeck-Rühmkorff

    Part II: Myocytic Adaptation and Myocardial Injury Pages: 105 - 114

16. On the mechanism and possible therapeutic application of delayed adaptation of the heart to stress situations

    • Ernst-Georg Krause
    • László Szekeres

    Part II: Myocytic Adaptation and Myocardial Injury Pages: 115 - 122

17. Ischaemic preconditioning in the rat heart: The role of G-proteins and adrenergic stimulation

    • Tanya Ravingerová
    • Nigel J. Pyne
    • James R. Parratt

    Part II: Myocytic Adaptation and Myocardial Injury Pages: 123 - 128

18. Adaptation of the heart to ischemia by preconditioning: Effects on energy equilibrium, properties of sarcolemmal ATPases and release of cardioprotective proteins

    • Attila Ziegelhöffer
    • Norbert Vrbjar
    • Tatjana Ravingerová

    Part II: Myocytic Adaptation and Myocardial Injury Pages: 129 - 137

19. Inhibition of cardiac sarcolemma Na⁺−K⁺ ATPase by oxyradical generating systems

    • Qiming Shao
    • Taku Matsubara
    • Naranjan S. Dhalla

    Part II: Myocytic Adaptation and Myocardial Injury Pages: 139 - 144

20. Alterations of β-adrenoceptor-G-protein-regulated adenylyl cyclase in heart failure

    • Michael Böhm

    Part III: Signal Transduction Pages: 147 - 160

21. Immunocytochemical studies of the G_i Protein mediated muscarinic receptor-adenylyl cyclase system

    • Wolfgang Schulze
    • Wolf-Peter Wolf
    • Liane Will-Shahab

    Part III: Signal Transduction Pages: 161 - 168

22. Renaissance of cytochemical localization of membrane ATPases in the myocardium

    • Ján Slezák
    • Ludmila Okruhlicová
    • Naranjan S. Dhalla

    Part III: Signal Transduction Pages: 169 - 172

23. Effects of selective α_1A-adrenoceptor antagonists on reperfusion arrhythmias in isolated rat hearts

    • Masahiro Yasutake
    • Metin Avkiran

    Part III: Signal Transduction Pages: 173 - 180

24. The role of catecholamines on intercellular coupling, myocardial cell synchronization and self ventricular defibrillation

    • Mordechai Manoach
    • Dalia Varon
    • Mordechai Erez

    Part III: Signal Transduction Pages: 181 - 185

25. Inhibition of (Na/K)-ATPase by electrophilic substances: Functional implications

    • Albert Breier
    • Attila Ziegelhöffer
    • Alena Vrbanová

    Part III: Signal Transduction Pages: 187 - 192