1. Letter from the Editors

   • Jennifer L. Hall
   • Nabil Dib

   EditorialNotes 24 January 2009 Pages: 1 - 1

2. The Role of Cardiac Ultrasound in Stem Cell Therapy

   • Andrew M. Kahn
   • Anthony N. DeMaria

   OriginalPaper Open access 22 January 2009 Pages: 2 - 8

   

3. Vulnerable Plaque Imaging—Current Techniques

   • K. Chad Hilty
   • Daniel H. Steinberg

   OriginalPaper 14 January 2009 Pages: 9 - 18

   

4. Intracardiac Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease

   • Piers C. A. Barker

   OriginalPaper 23 January 2009 Pages: 19 - 23

   

5. Myocardial Viability in Chronic Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: Similarities and Discordance of Different Diagnostic Approaches

   • Gaby Weissman
   • Federico M. Asch

   OriginalPaper 31 December 2008 Pages: 24 - 29

   

6. Polycationic Nanoparticles: (1) Synthesis of a Polylysine-MION Conjugate and its Application in Labeling Fibroblasts

   • Ernest V. Groman
   • Meiheng Yang
   • Dennis E. Vaccaro

   OriginalPaper 14 January 2009 Pages: 30 - 38

   

7. The Use of Magnetic Resonance Methods in Translational Cardiovascular Research

   • Arthur H. L. From
   • Kamil Ugurbil

   OriginalPaper 13 January 2009 Pages: 39 - 47

8. Endoventricular Electromechanical Mapping—The Diagnostic and Therapeutic Utility of the NOGA® XP Cardiac Navigation System

   • Peter J. Psaltis
   • Stephen G. Worthley

   OriginalPaper 10 December 2008 Pages: 48 - 62

   

9. The Biological Basis of Thrombosis and Bleeding in Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices

   • Ranjit John
   • Sangjin Lee

   OriginalPaper 17 October 2008 Pages: 63 - 70

10. Determinants of Delayed Preconditioning Against Myocardial Stunning in Chronically Instrumented Pigs

    • James A. Fallavollita

    OriginalPaper 02 December 2008 Pages: 71 - 80

    

11. AAV-2-Mediated Expression of IGF-1 in Skeletal Myoblasts Stimulates Angiogenesis and Cell Survival

    • Indira V. Subramanian
    • Brian C. A. Fernandes
    • S. Ramakrishnan

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 81 - 92

    

12. The Value of Integrating Policy People and Space in Research

    • Louise Hecker
    • Ravi K. Birla

    OriginalPaper 17 September 2008 Pages: 93 - 99

13. MicroRNAs Challenge the Status Quo of Therapeutic Targeting

    • Danish Sayed
    • Shweta Rane
    • Maha Abdellatif

    OriginalPaper Open access 09 September 2008 Pages: 100 - 107

    

14. Panoramic View of The Fifth International Symposium on Stem Cell Therapy and Applied Cardiovascular Biotechnology, April 2008, Madrid (Spain)

    • Adolfo Villa
    • Ricardo Sanz
    • Francisco Fernandez-Aviles

    OriginalPaper 19 September 2008 Pages: 108 - 113

15. Reverse Cardiac Remodeling Enabled by Mechanical Unloading of the Left Ventricle

    • Konstantinos G. Malliaras
    • John V. Terrovitis
    • John N. Nanas

    OriginalPaper 30 September 2008 Pages: 114 - 125

    

16. Peri-infarct Pacing with CRT in the Early Postinfarct Phase to Attenuate Long-term Remodeling

    • Eugene S. Chung
    • Wojciech Mazur
    • Dean J. Kereiakes

    OriginalPaper 26 September 2008 Pages: 126 - 129

    

17. Immunogenicity and Allogenicity: A Challenge of Stem Cell Therapy

    • Dominique Charron
    • Caroline Suberbielle-Boissel
    • Reem Al-Daccak

    OriginalPaper 26 September 2008 Pages: 130 - 138

18. Bone Marrow Cell Therapy After Acute Myocardial Infarction. Back to Bench, or Ready for an Outcome Trial

    • Ketil Lunde

    OriginalPaper 14 November 2008 Pages: 139 - 141