1. Inhibition of carnitine synthesis modulates protein contents of the cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺-ATPase and hexokinase type I in rat hearts with myocardial infarction

   • Katsunori Yonekura
   • Yoko Eto
   • Teruhiko Aoyagi

   Original contribution Pages: 343 - 348

2. Diminished posttetanic potentiation in failing human myocardium

   • Carsten Zobel
   • Klara Brixius
   • Robert H.G. Schwinger

   Original contribution Pages: 349 - 358

3. Ventricular fibrillation threshold and local dispersion of refractoriness in isolated rabbit hearts with left ventricular dysfunction

   • Francis L. Burton
   • Alan R. McPhaden
   • Stuart M. Cobbe

   Original contribution Pages: 359 - 367

4. Complementary cardioprotective effects of flavonoid metabolites and terpenoid constituents of Ginkgo biloba extract (EGb 761) during ischemia and reperfusion

   • Thibaut Liebgott
   • Malvina Miollan
   • Sylvia Pietri

   Original contribution Pages: 368 - 377

5. Species-dependent changes in mechano-energetics of isolated cardiac muscle during hypoxia

   • Thierry Joseph
   • Catherine Coirault
   • Yves Lecarpentier

   Original contribution Pages: 378 - 384

6. Recovery from sarafotoxin-b induced cardiopathological effects in mice following low energy laser irradiation

   • Niva Yaakov
   • Avner Bdolah
   • Uri Oron

   Original contribution Pages: 385 - 388

7. Inhibition of protein phosphatase 1 induces apoptosis in neonatal rat cardiac myocytes: role of adrenergic receptor stimulation

   • Krishna Singh
   • Catherine Communal
   • Wilson S. Colucci

   Original contribution Pages: 389 - 396

8. Reduction in myocardial apoptosis associated with overexpression of heat shock protein 70

   • Ken Suzuki
   • Yoshiki Sawa
   • Hikaru Matsuda

   Original contribution Pages: 397 - 403

9. Influence of the angiotensin II AT₁ receptor antagonist irbesartan on ischemia/reperfusion injury in the dog heart

   • Benedikt Preckel
   • Wolfgang Schlack
   • Volker Thämer

   Original contribution Pages: 404 - 412

10. Level of circulating phospholipase A2 in prediction of the prognosis of patients with suspected myocardial infarction

    • Pekka Porela
    • Kari Pulkki
    • Timo J. Nevalainen

    Original contribution Pages: 413 - 417

11. Delayed attenuation of myocardial ischemia with repeated exercise in subjects with stable angina: a possible model for the second window of protection?

    • Maria Bilińska
    • Stanislaw Rudnicki
    • Andrzej Beręsewicz

    Original contribution Pages: 418 - 423

12. Magnetocardiographic QT dispersion during cardiovascular autonomic function tests

    • Petri Haapalahti
    • Markku Mäkijärvi
    • Lauri Toivonen

    Original contribution Pages: 424 - 430