1. α-Tocopherol in Atherogenesis: Do we Know its Real Role?

   • Jiri Neuzil
   • Anna Baoutina

   OriginalPaper Pages: 421 - 423

2. Principles of Combination Therapy for Hypertension: What we Learn from the HOT and Other Studies— A Personal Point of View

   • Lionel H. Opie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 425 - 429

3. Gallopamil Activity on Asynergic Viable Myocardium in Acute Myocardial Infarction: Insights on Stunned and Hibernating Myocardium

   • Enrico Natale
   • Marco Tubaro
   • Filippo Milazzotto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 431 - 437

4. Evaluation of the Effect on Heart Rate Variability of Some Agents Acting at the β-Adrenoceptor using Nonlinear Scatterplot and Sequence Methods

   • B. Silke
   • J.G. Riddell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 439 - 448

5. Combination of a Calcium Antagonist, Verapamil, with an Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor, Trandolapril, in Experimental Myocardial Ischemia and Reperfusion: Antiarrhythmic and Hemodynamic Effects of Chronic Oral Pretreatment

   • Cecilia A. Muller
   • Lionel H. Opie
   • Vladimir Kraljevic

   OriginalPaper Pages: 449 - 455

6. Short-Term Estrogen Reduces Myocardial Infarct Size in Oophororectomized Female Rabbits in a Dose-Dependent Manner

   • Eftihia Sbarouni
   • Efstathios K. Iliodromitis
   • Dimitrios Th. Kremastinos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 457 - 462

7. Moxonidine Effect on Microalbuminuria, Thrombomodulin, and Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Levels in Patients with Essential Hypertension

   • Panagiota G. Krespi
   • Thomas K. Makris
   • Michael Kyriakidis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 463 - 467

8. Three-Month Effects of Candesartan Cilexetil, an Angiotensin II Type 1 (AT1) Receptor Antagonist, on Left Ventricular Mass and Hemodynamics in Patients with Essential Hypertension

   • Kenichi Mitsunami
   • Shinji Inoue
   • Masahiko Kinoshita

   OriginalPaper Pages: 469 - 474

9. Postrepolarization Refractoriness as a Potential Anti–Atrial Fibrillation Mechanism of Pilsicainide, a Pure Sodium Channel Blocker with Slow Recovery Kinetics

   • Hideaki Kanki
   • Hideo Mitamura
   • Satoshi Ogawa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 475 - 482

10. Effect of Flecainide on Heart Rate Variability in Subjects Without Coronary Artery Disease or Congestive Heart Failure

    • Laurent Fauchier
    • Dominique Babuty
    • Jean Paul Fauchier

    OriginalPaper Pages: 483 - 486

11. The Limits of Evidence-Based Cardiovascular Therapy

    • J.R. Hampton

    OriginalPaper Pages: 487 - 491

12. Intravascular Ultrasound

    • Raimund Erbel
    • Jos T C Roelandt
    • Gunter Gorge

    OriginalPaper Pages: 493 - 493

13. Ischemic Preconditioning of the Isolated Perfused Working Guinea Pig Heart

    • A. Lochner
    • S. Genade

    OriginalPaper Pages: 495 - 497

14. Reduction of Infarct Size in Isolated Rat Heart by CsA and FK506: Possible Role of Phosphatase Inhibition

    • Qing Cai
    • Gary F. Baxter
    • Derek M. Yellon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 499 - 501