1. Preface

   • Roberto Ferrari

   EditorialNotes Pages: III - IV

2. Hibernation: a form of endogenous protection? Six questions for investigation

   • David J. Hearse

   BriefCommunication Pages: 1 - 2

3. Some triggering mechanism, in addition to perfusion-contraction matching, may be essential to initiate hibernation

   • X. A. van Binsbergen
   • C. J. A. van Echteld
   • T. J. C. Ruigrok

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 5

4. Resting myocardial blood flow in patients with hibernating myocardium quantified by positron emission tomography

   • P. G. Camici
   • O. Rimoldi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 6 - 8

5. Hibernating myocardium is hypoperfused

   • S. H. Rahimtoola

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 11

6. Can we distinguish clinically hibernation from stunning and does it matter?

   • C. Ceconi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 12 - 15

7. Still looking for the ultimate mechanism of myocardial stunning

   • M. Ovize

   BriefCommunication Pages: 16 - 17

8. Myocardial stunning: do we know the mechanism?

   • M. J. Shattock

   OriginalPaper Pages: 18 - 22

9. Does calcium-driven mitochondrial oxygen radical formation play a role in cardiac stunning?

   • C. Guarnieri
   • C. Muscari
   • C. M. Caldarera

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 25

10. Viewpoint: stunning and longterm perfusion-contraction matching are clinically indistinguishable components of clinical hibernation and separation, even if practical, is unlikely to matter

    • M. Marber

    OriginalPaper Pages: 26 - 29

11. Therapy of myocardial stunning

    • G. Heusch

    OriginalPaper Pages: 30 - 31

12. Ischemic preconditioning on the cellular level

    • H. M. Piper
    • Y. V. Ladilov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 32 - 33

13. Ischemic preconditioning of the heart

    • D. Th. Kremastinos

    OriginalPaper Pages: 34 - 36

14. Arguments in favor of protein kinase C playing an important role in ischemic preconditioning

    • J. M. Downey
    • M. V. Cohen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 39

15. Role of protein kinase C in preconditioning with ischemia against lethal cell injury

    • R. B. Jennings

    OriginalPaper Pages: 40 - 42

16. The (still) unknown mechanism of ischemic preconditioning: possible involvement of reduced Na⁺/H⁺ exchange

    • D. Garcia-Dorado
    • M. Ruiz-Meana

    OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 45

17. Preconditioning: We do not need more experiments, because our current knowledge already permits us to develop pharmacological agents

    • L. H. Opie

    OriginalPaper Pages: 46 - 47

18. Ischemic preconditioning—do we need more (pharmacological) experiments?

    • J. W. de Jong
    • R. de Jonge

    OriginalPaper Pages: 48 - 50

19. On the relevance of ischemic preconditioning in humans

    • P. D. Verdouw
    • M. A. van den Doel
    • D. J. Duncker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 53

20. Role of preconditioning in cardiac surgery

    • L. P. Perrault
    • P. Menasché

    OriginalPaper Pages: 54 - 56

21. Myocardial K homeostasis in ischemia-importance of Na,K-ATPase

    • T. A. Schmidt
    • K. Kjeldsen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 59

22. The new ischemic syndromes. Remodelling of the heart is due to a biochemical and not haemodynamic mechanism?

    • S. Haunsø
    • J. Carlsen
    • S. Sheikh

    BriefCommunication Pages: 60 - 61

23. Remodelling of the heart is not a proven clinical concept

    • P. A. Poole-Wilson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 62 - 64