1. Inhibition of mitochondrial permeability transition pore opening: the holy grail of cardioprotection

   • Gerd Heusch
   • Kerstin Boengler
   • Rainer Schulz

   Editorial 12 January 2010 Pages: 151 - 154

2. Postconditioning with levosimendan reduces the infarct size involving the PI3K pathway and KATP-channel activation but is independent of PDE-III inhibition

   • Antje Hönisch
   • Norman Theuring
   • Christof Weinbrenner

   Original Contribution 16 October 2009 Pages: 155 - 167

   

3. Cardioselective nitric oxide synthase 3 gene transfer protects against myocardial reperfusion injury

   • Zsolt Szelid
   • Peter Pokreisz
   • Stefan P. Janssens

   Original Contribution 18 December 2009 Pages: 169 - 179

   

4. Effects of a protocol of ischemic postconditioning and/or captopril in hearts of normotensive and hypertensive rats

   • Claudia Penna
   • Francesca Tullio
   • Pasquale Pagliaro

   Original Contribution 13 December 2009 Pages: 181 - 192

   

5. Simvastatin in contrast to postconditioning reduces infarct size in hyperlipidemic rabbits: possible role of oxidative/nitrosative stress attenuation

   • Efstathios K. Iliodromitis
   • Ioanna Andreadou
   • Dimitrios Th. Kremastinos

   Original Contribution 12 January 2010 Pages: 193 - 203

   

6. Anti-inflammatory effect of oxytocin in rat myocardial infarction

   • Marek Jankowski
   • Vickram Bissonauth
   • Jolanta Gutkowska

   Original Contribution 12 December 2009 Pages: 205 - 218

   

7. Depressed expression of MuRF1 and MAFbx in areas remote of recent myocardial infarction: a mechanism contributing to myocardial remodeling?

   • Viviane M. Conraads
   • Christiaan J. Vrints
   • Volker Adams

   Original Contribution 27 October 2009 Pages: 219 - 226

   

8. Is remodeling the dominant compensatory mechanism in both chronic heart failure with preserved and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction?

   • David H. MacIver

   Original Contribution 25 September 2009 Pages: 227 - 234

   

9. Endothelin-B receptors and ventricular arrhythmogenesis in the rat model of acute myocardial infarction

   • Dimitrios L. Oikonomidis
   • Dimitrios G. Tsalikakis
   • Theofilos M. Kolettis

   Original Contribution 17 October 2009 Pages: 235 - 245

   

10. Aldosterone improves contractile function of adult rat ventricular cardiomyocytes in a non-acute way: potential relationship to the calcium paradox of aldosteronism

    • Sibylle Wenzel
    • Ilhan Tastan
    • Klaus-Dieter Schlüter

    Original Contribution 18 September 2009 Pages: 247 - 256

    

11. Nitric oxide/cGMP signalling mediates the cardioprotective action of adrenomedullin in reperfused myocardium

    • Shabaz A. Hamid
    • Matthias Totzeck
    • Gary F. Baxter

    Original Contribution 28 August 2009 Pages: 257 - 266

    

12. Transcriptional regulation of Pim-1 kinase in vascular smooth muscle cells and its role for proliferation

    • Manuela Willert
    • Antje Augstein
    • Ruediger Christian Braun-Dullaeus

    Original Contribution 27 August 2009 Pages: 267 - 277

    

13. K201 improves aspects of the contractile performance of human failing myocardium via reduction in Ca²⁺ leak from the sarcoplasmic reticulum

    • Karl Toischer
    • Stephan E. Lehnart
    • Tim Seidler

    Original Contribution Open access 30 August 2009 Pages: 279 - 287

    

14. Protein kinase C α and ε phosphorylation of troponin and myosin binding protein C reduce Ca²⁺ sensitivity in human myocardium

    • Viola Kooij
    • Nicky Boontje
    • Jolanda van der Velden

    Original Contribution Open access 05 August 2009 Pages: 289 - 300

    

15. FGF-inducible 14-kDa protein (Fn14) is regulated via the RhoA/ROCK kinase pathway in cardiomyocytes and mediates nuclear factor-kappaB activation by TWEAK

    • Emmanuel Chorianopoulos
    • Thomas Heger
    • Norbert Frey

    Original Contribution 23 July 2009 Pages: 301 - 313