1. Introduction

   • The Organizing Committee of the Symposium
   • Masayasu Hiraoka
   • Lionel H. Opie

   EditorialNotes Pages: i - i

2. The origin and significance of our supplements—A response to the New England Journal of Medicine

   • L. H. Opie

   Editorial Pages: 491 - 492

3. Review policy for supplement

   Acknowledgments Pages: 493 - 493

4. Effects of glibenclamide upon ATP-sensitive K channels during metabolic inhibition of isolated rat cardiac myocytes

   • Ian Findlay

   OriginalPaper Pages: 495 - 497

5. Metabolic regulation of cardiac ATP-sensitive K⁺ channels

   • James N. Weiss
   • Nagammal Venkatesh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 499 - 505

6. Modulation of ischemia by regulation of the ATP-sensitive potassium channel

   • L. H. Opie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 507 - 513

7. Gating properties of ATP-sensitive K⁺ channels in the heart

   • Akinori Noma

   OriginalPaper Pages: 515 - 520

8. Role of ATP-sensitive K⁺ channel current in ischemic arrhythmias

   • Arthur A. M. Wilde

   OriginalPaper Pages: 521 - 526

9. ATP-sensitive K⁺ channels in cardiac ischemia: An endogenous mechanism for protection of the heart

   • William C. Cole

   OriginalPaper Pages: 527 - 537

10. K channel openers activate different K channels in vascular smooth muscle cells

    • Kenji Kitamura
    • Masahiro Kamouchi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 539 - 546

11. Regulation of the cardiac delayed rectifier K current by neurotransmitters and magnesium

    • H. Criss Hartzell
    • Isabelle Duchatelle-Gourdon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 547 - 554

12. Therapeutic potential of potassium channel openers in peripheral vascular disease and asthma

    • Nigel S. Cook
    • Ian D. Chapman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 555 - 563

13. Hyperpolarization induced by K⁺ channel openers inhibits Ca²⁺ influx and Ca²⁺ release in coronary artery

    • Teruyuki Yanagisawa
    • Toshio Yamagishi
    • Yuji Okada

    OriginalPaper Pages: 565 - 574

14. Differential mechanism of block of palmitoyl lysophosphatidylcholine and of palmitoylcarnitine on inward rectifier K⁺ channels of guinea-pig ventricular myocytes

    • Toshiaki Sato
    • Makoto Arita
    • Tatsuto Kiyosue

    OriginalPaper Pages: 575 - 584

15. Molecular and functional diversity of cloned cardiac potassium channels

    • P. B. Bennett
    • S. Po
    • M. M. Tamkun

    OriginalPaper Pages: 585 - 592

16. Activation and reactivation of the ATP-sensitive K⁺ channel of the heart can be modified by drugs

    • Masayasu Hiraoka
    • Zheng Fan
    • Tohru Sawanobori

    OriginalPaper Pages: 593 - 598

17. Use-dependent block of the delayed K⁺ current in rabbit ventricular myocytes

    • Edward Carmeliet

    OriginalPaper Pages: 599 - 604

18. Regulation of arterial tone by calcium-dependent K⁺ channels and ATP-sensitive K⁺ channels

    • Mark T. Nelson
    • Joseph E. Brayden

    OriginalPaper Pages: 605 - 610

19. Enhanced functional expression of transient outward current in hypertrophied feline myocytes

    • Robert E. Ten Eick
    • Ke Zhang
    • Arthur L. Bassett

    OriginalPaper Pages: 611 - 619

20. Effect of E-4031, a new class III antiarrhythmic drug, on reentrant ventricular arrhythmias: Comparison with conventional class I drugs

    • Satoshi Ogawa
    • Hideo Mitamura
    • Hiroshi Katoh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 621 - 626

21. Delayed rectifier potassium channels in ventricle and sinoatrial node of the guinea pig: Molecular and regulatory properties

    • L. C. Freeman
    • R. S. Kass

    OriginalPaper Pages: 627 - 635