1. Perfusion-contraction match and mismatch

   • Gerd Heusch
   • Rainer Schulz

   Editorial review Pages: 1 - 10

2. Apoptosis in the vascular wall and atherosclerosis

   • Lothar Rössig
   • Stefanie Dimmeler
   • Andreas M. Zeiher

   Invited review Pages: 11 - 22

3. Cardiac isoform of α-2 macroglobin, a novel serum protein, may induce cardiac hypertrophy in rats

   • Chellam Rajamanickam
   • Sadayappan Sakthivel
   • Bernhard Kadenbach

   Original contribution Pages: 23 - 33

4. Interaction between the opposing functional effects of cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP in hypertrophic cardiac myocytes

   • Kepal N. Patel
   • Lin Yan
   • Harvey R. Weiss

   Original contribution Pages: 34 - 41

5. Integrins α_vβ₃ and α_vβ₅ mediate VSMC migration and are elevated during neointima formation in the rat aorta

   • Kai Kappert
   • Florian Blaschke
   • Kristof Graf

   Original contribution Pages: 42 - 49

6. Phosphorylation of cytokeratin 8 and 18 in human vascular smooth muscle cells of atherosclerotic lesions and umbilical cord vessels

   • Harald Bär
   • Florian Bea
   • Lothar Jahn

   Original contribution Pages: 50 - 58

7. Serotonin-induced human coronary microvascular contraction during acute myocardial ischemia is blocked by COX-2 inhibition

   • Caroline Métais
   • Cesario Bianchi
   • Frank W. Sellke

   Original contribution Pages: 59 - 67

8. Ischemia-induced ventricular fibrillation in isolated perfused rat heart: role of alpha_1A-adrenoceptor mediated activation of protein kinase C

   • Ralph Tölg
   • Jürgen Schreieck
   • Gert Richardt

   Original contribution Pages: 68 - 74

9. Antiendothelial antibodies in sera of patients with infective endocarditis

   • I. Portig
   • V. Beck
   • B. Maisch

   Original contribution Pages: 75 - 81

10. Atrial L-type Ca²⁺-channel, β-adrenoreceptor, and 5-hydroxytryptamine type 4 receptor mRNAs in human atrial fibrillation

    • Joachim Burkhard Grammer
    • Xiaorong Zeng
    • Volker Kühlkamp

    Original contribution Pages: 82 - 90

11. Pulmonary β adrenoceptor density in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy and idiopathic tachycardia

    • Michael A. Schäfers
    • Thomas Wichter
    • Günther Breithardt

    Original contribution Pages: 91 - 97

12. Signal characteristics of multichannel epicardial electrograms in chronic ischaemic and scarred myocardium: electromechanical mismatch indicates viability in regions of myocardial dysfunction

    • H.-J. Bruns
    • F.W Janssen
    • T. Wichter

    Original contribution Pages: 98 - 105

13. The ISHR-ES/Servier Research Fellowship

    Announcement Pages: 106 - 106