1. Editor's note

   • Gerd Heusch

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1

2. Critical role of energy supply and glycolysis during short-term hibernation

   • C. S. Apstein
   • F. R. Eberli

   Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 2 - 4

3. Hibernating myocardium represents a primary downregulation of regional myocardial oxygen consumption distal to a critical coronary stenosis

   • J. M. Canty Jr.
   • J. A. Fallavollita

   Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 5 - 8

4. Myocardial hibernation: relationship to a model for segmental dyskinesis

   • S. Evans Downing

   Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 9 - 11

5. Myocardial hibernation in terms of the flow-function relationship

   • K. P. Gallagher

   Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 12 - 15

6. Contractile pattern in acutely hibernating myocardium

   • A. Ilebekk
   • J. Offstad
   • K. A. Kirkebøen

   Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 16 - 18

7. Excitation-contraction coupling in hibernating myocardium

   • E. Marban

   Focussed Issue: Myocardial hibernation Pages: 19 - 22

8. Hibernating myocardium: a hypometabolic state for energy conservation

   • G. A. Pantely
   • J. D. Bristow

   Focussed Issue: Myocardial hibernation Pages: 23 - 25

9. Myocardial hibernation

   • J. D. Schipke

   Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 26 - 28

10. Acute adaptation to ischemia: Short-term hibernating myocardium

    • R. Schulz
    • G. Heusch

    Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 29 - 31

11. Myocardial hibernation: unresolved physiological and clinical issues

    • H. Gewirtz

    Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 32 - 34

12. Hibernating myocardium

    • G. R. Heyndrickx

    Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 35 - 37

13. Hibernating myocardium: a brief article

    • S. H. Rahimtoola

    Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 38 - 40

14. Myocardial hibernation, stunning, or both?

    • J. Ross Jr.

    Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 41 - 43

15. Structural aspects of the chronic hibernating myocardium in man

    • M. Borgers
    • J. Ausma
    • M. Borgers

    Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 44 - 46

16. Hibernating myocardium: adaptation or degeneration?

    • A. Elsässer
    • J. Schaper

    Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 47 - 48

17. The hibernating myocardium: identification of viable myocardium in patients with coronary artery disease and chronic left ventricular dysfunction

    • Robert O. Bonow

    Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 49 - 51

18. Commentary on hibernating myocardium and its clinical relevance

    • R. Ferrari

    Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 52 - 54

19. Hibernating myocardium, a clinical entity

    • W. Flameng
    • B. Shivalkar

    Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 55 - 57

20. Identification of “hibernating myocardium” by imaging approaches

    • M. Schwaiger

    Focussed Issue: Myocardial Hibernation Pages: 58 - 60

21. α-Adrenergic responses of isolated canine coronary microvessels

    • W. M. Chilian
    • C. J. H. Jones
    • M. J. Davis

    Original Contribution Pages: 61 - 69

22. No adrenergic constriction in isolated coronary arterioles?

    • E. O. Feigl

    Original Contribution Pages: 70 - 72

23. α₁-Adrenergic tone does not influence the transmural distribution of myocardial blood flow during exercise in dogs with pressure overload left ventricular hypertrophy

    • R. J. Bache
    • D. J. Duncker
    • M. J. Crampton

    Original Contribution Pages: 73 - 83