1. Limitation of myocardial infarct size in the clinical setting: current status and challenges in translating animal experiments into clinical therapy

   • Tetsuji Miura
   • Takayuki Miki

   REVIEW 20 August 2008 Pages: 501 - 513

2. TGF-β1 enhances cardiomyogenic differentiation of skeletal muscle-derived adult primitive cells

   • Ahmed Abdel-Latif
   • Ewa K. Zuba-Surma
   • Buddhadeb Dawn

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 23 May 2008 Pages: 514 - 524

   

3. Intravenous infusion of mesenchymal stem cells enhances regional perfusion and improves ventricular function in a porcine model of myocardial infarction

   • Michael E. Halkos
   • Zhi-Qing Zhao
   • Jakob Vinten-Johansen

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 14 August 2008 Pages: 525 - 536

   

4. Effects of unipolar stimulation on voltage and calcium distributions in the isolated rabbit heart

   • Veniamin Y. Sidorov
   • Mark R. Holcomb
   • John P. Wikswo

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 19 July 2008 Pages: 537 - 551

   

5. Reduced calcium responsiveness characterizes contractile dysfunction following coronary microembolization

   • Andreas Skyschally
   • Petra Gres
   • Gerd Heusch

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 23 June 2008 Pages: 552 - 559

   

6. Ischemia-reperfusion injury and cardioprotection: investigating PTEN, the phosphatase that negatively regulates PI3K, using a congenital model of PTEN haploinsufficiency

   • Hilary K. Siddall
   • Clare E. Warrell
   • Mihaela M. Mocanu

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 05 July 2008 Pages: 560 - 568

   

7. Impaired interaction between platelets and endothelial progenitor cells in diabetic patients

   • Petra Kleinbongard
   • Artur-Aron Weber

   INVITED EDITORIAL 11 September 2008 Pages: 569 - 571

8. Impaired interaction of platelets with endothelial progenitor cells in patients with cardiovascular risk factors

   • Elisabeth Dernbach
   • Voahanginirina Randriamboavonjy
   • Carmen Urbich

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 05 July 2008 Pages: 572 - 581

   

9. Impaired endothelial progenitor cell function predicts age-dependent carotid intimal thickening

   • Stefanie Keymel
   • Christoph Kalka
   • Christian Heiss

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 14 August 2008 Pages: 582 - 586

   

10. Impact of atherosclerotic plaque composition on coronary microembolization during percutaneous coronary interventions

    • Dirk Böse
    • Clemens von Birgelen
    • Raimund Erbel

    ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 11 September 2008 Pages: 587 - 597

    

11. A novel-1364A/C aquaporin 5 gene promoter polymorphism influences the responses to salt loading of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and of blood pressure in young healthy men

    • Michael Adamzik
    • Ulrich H. Frey
    • Winfried Siffert

    ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 10 October 2008 Pages: 598 - 610