1. Basic research in cardiology focussed issue on “energy and cation control in ischemia-reperfusion”

   • H. M. Piper
   • R. Ferrari

   Preface Pages: 379 - 379

2. Meaning of energetic parameters

   • H. Kammermeier
   • Anne-Marie L. Seymour

   Original Contributions Pages: 380 - 384

3. Evaluation of myocardial energy status in vivo by NMR spectroscopy

   • A. -M. L. Seymour

   Original Contributions Pages: 385 - 395

4. Osmotic changes and transsarcolemmal ion transport during total ischaemia of isolated rat ventricular myocytes

   • J. W. T. Fiolet
   • C. A. Schumacher
   • R. Coronel

   Original Contributions Pages: 396 - 410

5. Na⁺/K⁺ pump inhibition induces cell shrinkage in cultured chick cardiac myocytes

   • T. W. Smith
   • R. L. Rasmusson
   • M. Lieberman

   Original Contributions Pages: 411 - 420

6. The effects of lactic acid production on contraction and intracellular pH during hypoxia in cardiac muscle

   • D. A. Eisner
   • G. L. Smith
   • S. C. O'Neill

   Original Contributions Pages: 421 - 429

7. Inhibition of Na⁺/H⁺ exchange preserves viability, restores mechanical function, and prevents the pH paradox in reperfusion injury to rat neonatal myocytes

   • I. S. Harper
   • J. M. Bond
   • J. J. Lemasters

   Original Contributions Pages: 430 - 442

8. Na⁺/H⁺ exchange and its inhibition in cardiac ischemia and reperfusion

   • W. Scholz
   • U. Albus

   Original Contributions Pages: 443 - 455

9. Role of increased cytosolic free calcium concentration in myocardial ischemic injury

   • C. Steenbergen
   • T. A. Fralix
   • E. Murphy

   Original Contributions Pages: 456 - 470

10. Calcium and sodium control in hypoxic-reoxygenated cardiomyocytes

    • H. M. Piper
    • B. Siegmund
    • K. -D. Schlüter

    Original Contributions Pages: 471 - 482

11. Mitochondrial free calcium regulation in hypoxia and reoxygenation: relation to cellular injury

    • H. S. Silverman

    Original Contributions Pages: 483 - 494

12. Mitochondrial energy production and cation control in myocardial ischaemia and reperfusion

    • R. Ferrari
    • P. Pedersini
    • O. Visioli

    Original Contributions Pages: 495 - 512

13. On the involvement of a mitochondrial pore in reperfusion injury

    • M. Crompton
    • L. Andreeva

    Original Contributions Pages: 513 - 523

14. Announcement of the International Albrecht Fleckenstein Award

    Scholarship Pages: 524 - 524