1. Albert Wollenberger, Professor, Ph.D. (Harvard), Dr. Sc. Med. (Berlin)

   Legacy Pages: v - v

2. Preface

   • Ernst-Georg Krause
   • Roland Vetter

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1

3. Control of cardiac performance by Ca-turnover

   • Jiří Šimurda
   • Milena Šimurdová
   • Georges Christé

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 12

4. Deformation of the Bowditch staircase in Ca²⁺-overloaded mammalian cardiac tissue — a calcium phenomenon?

   • Matthias Löhn
   • Gerhard Szymanski
   • Fritz Markwardt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 25

5. Cooperative interaction between Ca²⁺ binding sites in the hydrophilic loop of the Na⁺-Ca²⁺ exchanger

   • Dmitri O. Levitsky
   • Bodvaël Fraysse
   • Kenneth D. Philipson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 32

6. E-1020, a water soluble imidazopyridine, has direct effects on Ca²⁺-dependent force and ATP hydrolysis of canine and bovine cardiac myofilaments

   • Frances M. Powers
   • Kimberly A. Palmiter
   • R. John Solaro

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 39

7. Primary cultures of cardiac muscle cells as models for investigation of protein glycosylation

   • Ursula Henning
   • Wolf-Peter Wolf
   • Martin Holtzhauer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 46

8. Influence of glycosylation inhibitors on dihydropyridine binding to cardiac cells

   • Ursula Henning
   • Gerd Wallukat
   • Martin Holtzhauer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 52

9. Comparative study of cardiac electrophysiological effects of atrial natriuretic peptide

   • Valeria Kecskemeti
   • Pal Pacher
   • Peter Nanasi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 59

10. Effect of TaiCatoxin (TCX) on the electrophysiological, mechanical and biochemical characteristics of spontaneously beating ventricular cardiomyocytes

    • Elisabeth Fantini
    • Pierre Athias
    • Arié Pinson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 66

11. Pharmacological characteristics of endothelin receptors in the rabbit ventricular myocardium: The nonselective endothelin receptor antagonist PD 145065 antagonizes the positive inotropic effect of endothelin-3 but not of endothelin-1

    • Ikuo Norota
    • Masao Endoh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 74

12. Involvement of nitric oxide synthase and protein kinase C activation on chagasic antibodies action upon cardiac contractility

    • Leonor Sterin-Borda
    • Graciela Cremaschi
    • Enri Borda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 82

13. Kinetics of myocardial phospholipase D

    • Jian Dai
    • Song-Yan Liu
    • Vincenzo Panagia

    OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 87

14. Is cysteine residue important in FITC-sensitive ATP-binding site of P-type ATPases? A commentary to the state of the art

    • Albert Breier
    • Attila Ziegelhöffer
    • Ján Slezák

    OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 93

15. Reinstatement of the ATP high energy paradigm

    • Kurt R. H. Repke

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 99

16. Regulation of and intervention into the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway and adenine nucleotide metabolism in the heart

    • Heinz-Gerd Zimmer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 109

17. The endogenous digitalis-like factor

    • František Kölbel
    • Vratislav Schreiber

    OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 115

18. Functional antagonism by a monoclonal antibody to digoxin in a test system of cultured rat heart myocytes

    • G. Wallukat
    • H. -U. Simon
    • I. Wolf

    OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 120

19. Biphasic changes in relaxation following reperfusion after myocardial ischemia

    • Susana M. Mosca
    • Martín Carriquiriborde
    • Horacio E. Cingolani

    OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 128

20. Signal transduction in myocardial ischaemia and reperfusion

    • A. Lochner
    • E. Tromp
    • R. Mouton

    OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 136

21. Reversible and irreversible damage in reoxygenated ‘ischemic’ ventricular myocytes in culture

    • Arié Pinson
    • Régine Tirosh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 137 - 141

22. Effects of hypoxia, simulated ischemia and reoxygenation on the contractile function of human atrial trabeculae

    • Andreas Lammerich
    • Jürgen Bohm
    • Joachim Günther

    OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 151

23. The guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory proteins (G proteins) in myocardium with ischemia

    • Mitsumasa Ohyanagi
    • Tadaaki Iwasaki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 158

24. Role of reactive oxygen species in cardiovascular aging

    • Claudio Muscari
    • Antonella Giaccari
    • Claudio Marcello Caldarera

    OriginalPaper Pages: 159 - 166

25. Uncoupling of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation alters lipid peroxidation-derived free radical production but not recovery of postischemic rat hearts and post-hypoxic endothelial cells

    • I. E. Blasig
    • B. F. Dickens
    • J. H. Kramer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 177

26. Relationship between mechanical dysfunction and depression of sarcolemmal Ca²⁺-pump activity in hearts perfused with oxygen free radicals

    • Taku Matsubara
    • Naranjan S. Dhalla

    OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 185

27. Relation between energy metabolism, glycolysis, noradrenaline release and duration of ischemia

    • Anna Cargnoni
    • Claudio Ceconi
    • Roberto Ferrari

    OriginalPaper Pages: 187 - 194

28. On the regulation of cellular energetics in health and disease

    • V. A. Saks
    • T. Tiivel
    • L. Rappaport

    OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 208

29. Salvage of jeopardized myocardium by ischemic preconditioning: Is the quest over?

    • Rudolf Strasser
    • Patrik Htun
    • Wolfgang Schaper

    OriginalPaper Pages: 209 - 215

30. Cytoprotective mechanisms in cultured cardiomyocytes

    • Hari S. Sharma
    • Joachim Stahl
    • Iris Löw-Friedrich

    OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 224

31. Delayed cardioprotection is associated with the sub-cellular relocalisation of ventricular protein kinase Cɛ, but not p42/44MAPK

    • Susan Wilson
    • Wu Song
    • Nigel J. Pyne

    OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 230

32. HSP25 in isolated perfused rat hearts: Localization and response to hyperthermia

    • Brigitte Hoch
    • Gudrun Lutsch
    • Peter Karczewski

    OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 239

33. Molecular cloning, sequencing and expression analysis of a fatty acid transport gene in rat heart induced by ischemic preconditiong and oxidative stress

    • Nilanjana Maulik
    • Dipak K. Das

    OriginalPaper Pages: 241 - 247

34. Protaglandins and the antiarrhythmic effect of preconditioning in the isolated rat heart

    • Michael Arad
    • Tatiana Oxman
    • Babeth Rabinowitz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 249 - 255

35. Prevention by 7-oxo-prostacyclin of the calcium paradox in rat heart: Role of the sarcolemmal (Na,K)-ATPase

    • Attila Ziegelhöffer
    • Tatiana Ravingerová
    • László Szekeres

    OriginalPaper Pages: 257 - 263

36. Donors of nitric oxide mimic effects of ischaemic preconditioning on reperfusion induced arrhythmias in isolated rat heart

    • Maria Bilińska
    • Michał Mączewski
    • Andrzej Beręsewicz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 265 - 271

37. Crucial role of intracellular effectors on glycogenolysis in the isolated rat heart: Potential consequences on the myocardial tolerance to ischemia

    • N. Lavanchy
    • S. Grably
    • A. Rossi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 273 - 282

38. Probucol treatment reverses antioxidant and functional deficit in diabetic cardiomyopathy

    • N. Kaul
    • N. Siveski-Iliskovic
    • P. K. Singal

    OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 288

39. Glycogen phosphorylase isoenzyme BB in diagnosis of myocardial ischaemic injury and infarction

    • Ernst-Georg Krause
    • Georg Rabitzsch
    • Bernd Puschendorf

    OriginalPaper Pages: 289 - 295

40. Unaltered ryanodine receptor protein levels in ischemic cardiomvopathy

    • Wolfgang Schillinger
    • Markus Meyer
    • Gerd Hasenfuss

    OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 302

41. Myocardial infarction and nitric oxide

    • Richard J. Bing
    • Hiroshi Suzuki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 306

42. Estrogen effects in the heart

    • T. Pelzer
    • A. Shamim
    • L. Neyses

    OriginalPaper Pages: 307 - 313

43. Xenoreactive natural antibodies and induced antibodies — their effects on beating cardiomyocytes as a model of a xenograft

    • Ursula Müller-Werdan
    • Bernd Koidl
    • Claus Hammer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 315 - 324