1. Remote ischaemic preconditioning of the heart: remote questions, remote importance, or remote preconditions?

   • Jürgen Peters

   Invited Editorial 05 May 2011 Pages: 507 - 509

2. Remote intermittent ischemia before coronary artery bypass graft surgery: a strategy to reduce injury and inflammation?

   • Partheeban Karuppasamy
   • Sanjay Chaubey
   • Gudrun Kunst

   Original Contribution 05 May 2011 Pages: 511 - 519

   

3. Endothelial NADPH oxidases: friends or foes?

   • Henning Morawietz

   Invited Editorial 11 May 2011 Pages: 521 - 525

   

4. Role of endothelial Nox2 NADPH oxidase in angiotensin II-induced hypertension and vasomotor dysfunction

   • Colin E. Murdoch
   • Sara P. Alom-Ruiz
   • Ajay M. Shah

   Original Contribution Open access 29 April 2011 Pages: 527 - 538

   

5. Regulation of vascular guanylyl cyclase by endothelial nitric oxide-dependent posttranslational modification

   • Marc Oppermann
   • Tatsiana Suvorava
   • Georg Kojda

   Original Contribution 06 February 2011 Pages: 539 - 549

   

6. Arterial flow reduces oxidative stress via an antioxidant response element and Oct-1 binding site within the NADPH oxidase 4 promoter in endothelial cells

   • Claudia Goettsch
   • Winfried Goettsch
   • Henning Morawietz

   Original Contribution 12 March 2011 Pages: 551 - 561

   

7. Antiproliferative effect of estrogen in vascular smooth muscle cells is mediated by Kruppel-like factor-4 and manganese superoxide dismutase

   • Derya Sivritas
   • Marc Ulrich Becher
   • Kerstin Wassmann

   Original Contribution 12 April 2011 Pages: 563 - 575

   

8. EGFR trans-activation by urotensin II receptor is mediated by β-arrestin recruitment and confers cardioprotection in pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy

   • Giovanni Esposito
   • Cinzia Perrino
   • Massimo Chiariello

   Original Contribution 03 March 2011 Pages: 577 - 589

   

9. Chronic cardiac pressure overload induces adrenal medulla hypertrophy and increased catecholamine synthesis

   • Johanna Schneider
   • Achim Lother
   • Ralf Gilsbach

   Original Contribution 10 March 2011 Pages: 591 - 602

   

10. Activated NHE1 is required to induce early cardiac hypertrophy in mice

    • Fatima Mraiche
    • Tatsujiro Oka
    • Larry Fliegel

    Original Contribution 27 February 2011 Pages: 603 - 616

    

11. Desmoglein 2 mutant mice develop cardiac fibrosis and dilation

    • Claudia A. Krusche
    • Bastian Holthöfer
    • Rudolf E. Leube

    Original Contribution Open access 01 April 2011 Pages: 617 - 633

    

12. The alpha1 isoform of soluble guanylate cyclase regulates cardiac contractility but is not required for ischemic preconditioning

    • Patrick Y. Sips
    • Peter Brouckaert
    • Fumito Ichinose

    Original Contribution 11 March 2011 Pages: 635 - 643

    

13. Intravenous and intramyocardial injection of apoptotic white blood cell suspensions prevents ventricular remodelling by increasing elastin expression in cardiac scar tissue after myocardial infarction

    • Michael Lichtenauer
    • Michael Mildner
    • Hendrik Jan Ankersmit

    Original Contribution Open access 17 March 2011 Pages: 645 - 655

    

14. Prevalence of intimal heat shock protein 60 homologues in unstable angina and correlation with anti-heat shock protein antibody titers

    • René P. Andrié
    • Gerhard Bauriedel
    • Dirk Skowasch

    Original Contribution 18 March 2011 Pages: 657 - 665

    

15. Mitogen-activated protein kinases activation in T lymphocytes of patients with acute coronary syndromes

    • Ciro Indolfi
    • Cosimo Gasparri
    • Antonio Curcio

    Original Contribution 20 March 2011 Pages: 667 - 679

    

16. Acute vasomotor paralysis and potential downstream effects of paclitaxel from stents implanted for saphenous vein aorto-coronary bypass stenosis

    • Petra Kleinbongard
    • Dirk Böse
    • Gerd Heusch

    Original Contribution 07 April 2011 Pages: 681 - 689