1. Ramipril increases the protein level of skeletal muscle IRS-1 and alters protein tyrosine phosphatase activity in spontaneously hypertensive rats

   • Jan Krützfeldt
   • Walter Raasch
   • Harald H. Klein

   Original Article Pages: 1 - 6

2. Comparison of the protective effects of ischemic preconditioning and the Na⁺/H⁺ exchanger blockade

   • Susana M. Mosca
   • Horacio E. Cingolani

   Original article Pages: 7 - 13

3. Ca²⁺ oscillation and c-fos gene expression induced via muscarinic acetylcholine receptor in human T- and B-cell lines

   • Takeshi Fujii
   • Koichiro Kawashima

   Original Article Pages: 14 - 21

4. Effects of antiarrhythmic drugs on cloned cardiac voltage-gated potassium channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes

   • Sascha Rolf
   • Wilhelm Haverkamp
   • Michael Madeja

   Original article Pages: 22 - 31

5. Characterization of opioid receptor types modulating acetylcholine release in septal regions of the rat brain

   • E. Gazyakan
   • M. Hennegriff
   • R. Jackisch

   Original article Pages: 32 - 40

6. Nicotine inhibits firing activity of dorsal raphe 5-HT neurones in vivo

   • Göran Engberg
   • Sophie Erhardt
   • Mihály Hajós

   Original article Pages: 41 - 45

7. Inhibition of glucose-induced insulin secretion by a peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor ligand (PK 11195)

   • Didier Pujalte
   • Sophie Claeysen
   • Pierre Petit

   Original Article Pages: 46 - 51

8. Altered endothelium-dependent and -independent hyperpolarization and endothelium-dependent relaxation in carotid arteries isolated from streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

   • Katsuo Kamata
   • Kunihiro Ohuchi
   • Hideaki Kirisawa

   Original article Pages: 52 - 59

9. Characterization of histamine H₃ receptors in mouse brain using the H₃ antagonist [¹²⁵I]iodophenpropit

   • Frank P. Jansen
   • Takatoshi Mochizuki
   • Hendrik Timmerman

   Original Article Pages: 60 - 67

10. Vasodilator effects of KRN2391, levcromakalim and 3-morpholino-sydnonimin in human pial and omental arteries

    • Jesper Petersson
    • Torsten Ryman
    • Edward D. Högestätt

    Original Article Pages: 68 - 73

11. Gabapentin-lactam (8-aza-spiro[5,4]decan-9-on; GBP-L) inhibits oxygen glucose deprivation-induced [³H]glutamate release and is a neuroprotective agent in a model of acute retinal ischemia

    • Thomas Jehle
    • Wolf A. Lagrèze
    • Thomas J. Feuerstein

    Original Article Pages: 74 - 81

12. Studies on the cytotoxic mechanisms of ginkgetin in a human ovarian adenocarcinoma cell line

    • Yeu Su
    • Chang-Ming Sun
    • Pei-Teh Chang

    Original Article Pages: 82 - 90