1. Editorial: The heterogeneities of the heart

   • J.D. Schipke

   FOCUSSED ISSUE: Cardiac heterogeneity Pages: 515 - 516

2. Electrical heterogeneity within the ventricular wall

   • Charles Antzelevitch
   • Jeffrey Fish

   FOCUSSED ISSUE: Cardiac heterogeneity Pages: 517 - 527

3. Presence, distribution and physiological function of adrenergic and muscarinic receptor subtypes in the human heart

   • Otto-Erich Brodde
   • Heike Bruck
   • Torsten Seyfarth

   FOCUSSED ISSUE: Cardiac heterogeneity Pages: 528 - 538

4. How heterogeneous is the cardiac autonomic innervation?

   • Mitsuru Momose
   • Leisha Tyndale-Hines
   • Markus Schwaiger

   FOCUSSED ISSUE: Cardiac heterogeneity Pages: 539 - 546

5. Microheterogeneity of myocardial blood flow

   • Takeshi Matsumoto
   • Fumihiko Kajiya

   FOCUSSED ISSUE: Cardiac heterogeneity Pages: 547 - 552

6. Temporal fluctuations of myocardial high-energy phosphate metabolites with the cardiac cycle

   • Matthias Spindler
   • Barbara Illing
   • Stefan Neubauer

   FOCUSSED ISSUE: Cardiac heterogeneity Pages: 553 - 556

7. Correlation between heterogeneous myocardial flow and oxidative metabolism in normoxic and stunned myocardium

   • Uwe Schwanke
   • Sinclair Cleveland
   • Jochen D. Schipke

   FOCUSSED ISSUE: Cardiac heterogeneity Pages: 557 - 563

8. Heterogeneity of metabolic parameters in the left ventricular myocardium and its relation to local blood flow

   • Andreas Deussen
   • Thomas Lauer
   • Joachim Kropp

   FOCUSSED ISSUE: Cardiac heterogeneity Pages: 564 - 574

9. Assessing heterogeneous distribution of blood flow and metabolism in the heart

   • A. B. Johan Groeneveld
   • Johannes H. G. M. van Beek
   • David J. C. Alders

   FOCUSSED ISSUE: Cardiac heterogeneity Pages: 575 - 581

10. The mechanical and metabolic basis of myocardial blood flow heterogeneity

    • James B. Bassingthwaighte
    • Daniel A. Beard
    • Zheng Li

    FOCUSSED ISSUE: Cardiac heterogeneity Pages: 582 - 594

11. Doppler myocardial imaging. A new tool to assess regional inhomogeneity in cardiac function

    • Frank Weidemann
    • Miroslaw Kowalski
    • George R. Sutherland

    FOCUSSED ISSUE: Cardiac heterogeneity Pages: 595 - 605

12. Molecular genetics of G proteins and atherosclerosis risk

    • Winfried Siffert

    review Pages: 606 - 611

13. Glycolysis protects sarcolemmal membrane integrity during total ischemia in the rat heart

    • Nadir Askenasy

    ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 612 - 622

14. Mechanisms of Ca²⁺ overload induced by extracellular H₂O₂ in quiescent isolated rat cardiomyocytes

    • Wen Gen
    • Masato Tani
    • Kayoko Tamaki

    ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 623 - 629

15. Recombinant Sindbis virus allows expression and precise targeting of proteins of the contractile apparatus in cultured cardiomyocytes

    • Daniel A. Dätwyler
    • Josef P. Magyar
    • Hans M. Eppenberger

    ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 630 - 635

16. Structure and expression of the mouse cardiac calsequestrin gene

    • Konrad F. Frank
    • Laurence Mesnard-Rouiller
    • Evangelia G. Kranias

    ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 636 - 644

17. Single sodium channels from human ventricular muscle in planar lipid bilayers

    • Hans C. Wartenberg
    • Jan P. Wartenberg
    • Bernd W. Urban

    ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 645 - 651

18. Intracellular mechanisms of cGMP-mediated regulation of myocardial contraction

    • Shinji Satoh
    • Naoki Makino

    ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 652 - 658

19. Myocardial enzymatic activity of renin and cathepsin D before and after bilateral nephrectomy

    • Stephen A. Katz
    • John A. Opsahl
    • Lynn M. Forbis

    ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 659 - 668

20. Author Index to Vol. 96 (2001)

    Pages: 669 - 670

21. Subject Index to Vol. 96 (2001)

    Pages: 671 - 672

22. Contents of Volume 96 (2001)

    Pages: 673 - 677