1. Expression of 60 kDa heat shock protein (Hsp60) on plasma membrane of Daudi cells

   • Rosella Cicconi
   • Andrea Delpino
   • Daniela Vismara

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 7

2. Energy metabolism during cutaneous wound healing in immunocompromised and aged rats

   • Asheesh Gupta
   • Namratta Manhas
   • Ram Raghubir

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 14

3. Comparison of inhibitory effects of oxygen radicals and calf serum protein on surfactant activity

   • M.M. Lee
   • F.H.Y. Green
   • V. Vallyathan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 22

4. Glucoronic acid is a novel inducer of heat shock response

   • Young Mee Kim
   • Hee-Jung Kim
   • Kong-Joo Lee

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 33

5. Inhibition of Ras-GTPase, but not tyrosine kinases or Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II, improves recovery of cardiac function in the globally ischemic heart

   • Ibrahim F. Benter
   • Jasbir S. Juggi
   • Saghir Akhtar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 42

6. Caspase-3: Its potential involvement in Cr(III)-induced apoptosis of lymphocytes

   • Kuppusamy Balamurugan
   • Rama Rajaram
   • Thirumalachari Ramasami

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 51

7. Impaired Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase activity as a mechanism of reactive nitrogen species-induced cytotoxicity in guinea pig liver exposed to lipopolysaccharides

   • Behzat Çimen
   • Nurten Türközkan
   • Çimen Karasu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 57

8. Apolipoprotein C3 SstI polymorphism in the risk assessment of CAD

   • S. Chhabra
   • R. Narang
   • N. Das

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 66

9. Evidence of apoptosis in human diabetic kidney

   • Dinender Kumar
   • Susan Robertson
   • Kevin D. Burns

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 70

10. TBP-associated factor 1 overexpression induces tolerance to Doxorubicin in confluent H9c2 cells by an increase in cdk2 activity and cyclin E expression

    • Nicolas Servant
    • Daniela Marcantonio
    • Lorraine E. Chalifour

    OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 81

11. Cell survival signalling in heart derived myofibroblasts induced by preconditioning and bradykinin: The role of p38 MAP kinase

    • Marie Cooper
    • Kirsti Ytrehus

    OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 90

12. Effects of chronic quercetin treatment on antioxidant defence system and oxidative status of deoxycorticosterone acetate-salt-hypertensive rats

    • Milagros Galisteo
    • María Francisca García-Saura
    • Juan Duarte

    OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 99

13. Metabolism of tritiated D-glucose anomers in rat erythrocytes

    • Y. Zhang
    • H. Jijakli
    • W.J. Malaisse

    OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 104

14. Permeability of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate in liposomes and cardiac myocytes

    • Thomas J. Wheeler
    • John M. McCurdy
    • Sufan Chien

    OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 114

15. Liver fatty acid binding protein expression enhances branched-chain fatty acid metabolism

    • Barbara P. Atshaves
    • Stephen M. Storey
    • Friedhelm Schroeder

    OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 129

16. Estradiol-mediated internalisation of the non-activated estrogen receptor from the goat uterine plasma membrane: Identification of the proteins involved

    • S. Sreeja
    • Raghava Varman Thampan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 140

17. Proteins which mediate the nuclear entry of goat uterine non activated estrogen receptor (naER) following naER internalization from the plasma membrane

    • S. Sreeja
    • R.V. Thampan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 148

18. Pure pressure stress increased monocarboxylate transporter in human aortic smooth muscle cell membrane

    • Koji Oikawa
    • Kenji Iizuka
    • Hideaki Kawaguchi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 156

19. Development and application of Na⁺/Ca²⁺ exchange inhibitors

    • Takahiro Iwamoto
    • Santomi Kita

    OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 161

20. Intracellular signaling pathways for norepinephrine- and endothelin-1-mediated regulation of myocardial cell apoptosis

    • Eri Iwai-Kanai
    • Koji Hasegawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 168

21. Akt and Ca²⁺ signaling in endothelial cells

    • Mariko Ozeki
    • Hiroshi Watanabe
    • Hideharu Hayashi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 176

22. Cardiomyocytes undergo cells division following myocardial infarction is a spatially and temporally restricted event in rats

    • Shinsuke Yuasa
    • Keiichi Fukuda
    • Satoshi Ogawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 181

23. Electrical and ionic abnormalities in the heart of cardiomyopathic hamsters: In quest of a new paradigm for cardiac failure and lethal arrhythmia

    • Aiji Sakamoto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 187

24. Regulatory molecules for coronary expressions of VEGF and its angiogenic receptor KDR in hypoestrogenic middle-aged female rats

    • Subrina Jesmin
    • Ichiro Sakuma
    • Akira Kitabatake

    OriginalPaper Pages: 189 - 196

25. Myosin phosphatase: Structure, regulation and function

    • Masaaki Ito
    • Takeshi Nakano
    • David J. Hartshorne

    OriginalPaper Pages: 197 - 209

26. Induction of heat shock protein 72 in the failing heart is attenuated after an exposure to heat shock

    • Kouichi Tanonaka
    • Wakako Toga
    • Satoshi Takeo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 215

27. Beneficial effects of olmesartan, a novel angiotensin II receptor type 1 antagonist, upon acute autoimmune myocarditis

    • Masaomi Nimata
    • Chiharu Kishimoto
    • Keisuke Shioji

    OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 222

28. Cardioprotective effects of carvedilol on acute autoimmune myocarditis

    • Zuyi Yuan
    • Keisuke Shioji
    • Chiharu Kishimoto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 223 - 228

29. Volume contents

    Volume Contents Pages: 229 - 232

30. Instructions for authors

    Instructions for Authors Pages: 233 - 233