1. Tribute to Wolfgang Schaper on the occasion of his 75th birthday

   • Gerd Heusch

   EDITORIAL 16 January 2009 Pages: 1 - 1

2. On the occasion of Wolfgang Schaper’s 75th birthday

   • Kerstin Boengler
   • Ivo Buschmann
   • Stefan Sack

   EDITORIAL 16 January 2009 Pages: 2 - 4

3. Collateral circulation

   • Wolfgang Schaper

   INVITED EDITORIAL Open access 16 January 2009 Pages: 5 - 21

   

4. Innate immunity and myocardial adaptation to ischemia

   • Hanne Støre Valeur
   • Guro Valen

   REVIEW 16 October 2008 Pages: 22 - 32

   

5. Contribution of I _Kr and I _K1 to ventricular repolarization in canine and human myocytes: is there any influence of action potential duration?

   • Norbert Jost
   • Károly Acsai
   • Péter P. Nánási

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 05 July 2008 Pages: 33 - 41

   

6. Advanced glycation end products depress function of endothelial progenitor cells via p38 and ERK 1/2 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways

   • Chengbo Sun
   • Chun Liang
   • Zonggui Wu

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 11 July 2008 Pages: 42 - 49

   

7. Activation of sphingosine kinase by muscarinic receptors enhances NO-mediated and attenuates EDHF-mediated vasorelaxation

   • Arthur C. M. Mulders
   • Marie-Jeanne Mathy
   • Stephan L. M. Peters

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 05 September 2008 Pages: 50 - 59

   

8. Propylthiouracil, independent of its antithyroid effect, decreases VSMC collagen expression

   • Wei-Jan Chen
   • Jong-Hwei S. Pang
   • Su-Hui Yang

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 15 September 2008 Pages: 60 - 68

   

9. Thyroid hormone improves postischaemic recovery of function while limiting apoptosis: a new therapeutic approach to support hemodynamics in the setting of ischaemia-reperfusion?

   • Constantinos Pantos
   • Iordanis Mourouzis
   • Dennis V. Cokkinos

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 16 January 2009 Pages: 69 - 77

   

10. TNF-α induced shedding of the endothelial glycocalyx is prevented by hydrocortisone and antithrombin

    • Daniel Chappell
    • Klaus Hofmann-Kiefer
    • Bernhard F. Becker

    ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 03 October 2008 Pages: 78 - 89

    

11. Identification of mutational hot spots in LMNA encoding lamin A/C in patients with familial dilated cardiomyopathy

    • Andreas Perrot
    • Shwan Hussein
    • Cemil Özcelik

    ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 15 September 2008 Pages: 90 - 99

    

12. Green and black tea are equally potent stimuli of NO production and vasodilation: new insights into tea ingredients involved

    • Mario Lorenz
    • Janka Urban
    • Verena Stangl

    ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION 16 January 2009 Pages: 100 - 110