1. The birth of the Journal of Muscle Research

   • Richard Tregear

   Historical 28 November 2008 Pages: 145 - 145

2. Recollections of the British muscle dining club, one origin of the European muscle congress

   • Gerald Elliott

   Historical 13 December 2008 Pages: 147 - 149

   

3. Footsteps of the European society for muscle research (1971–2008)

   • Marcus C. Schaub

   Historical 20 January 2009 Pages: 151 - 154

   

4. Back to square one: what do we know about the functions of Muscle LIM Protein in the heart?

   • Katja Gehmlich
   • Christian Geier
   • Elisabeth Ehler

   Review Paper 30 December 2008 Pages: 155 - 158

   

5. Myocardial adaptations in the failing heart: cause or consequence?

   • Sabine J. van Dijk
   • Nazha Hamdani
   • Jolanda van der Velden

   Review Paper Open access 14 February 2009 Pages: 159 - 162

   

6. Prostaglandins in muscle regeneration

   • Pedro Veliça
   • Chris M. Bunce

   Review Paper 04 December 2008 Pages: 163 - 167

   

7. Current techniques for the study of troponin I phosphorylation in human heart

   • Clare E. Gallon

   Review Paper 27 January 2009 Pages: 169 - 172

   

8. Stability of two β-tropomyosin isoforms: effects of mutation Arg91Gly

   • Ilya Nevzorov
   • Charles Redwood
   • Dmitrii Levitsky

   Report 12 February 2009 Pages: 173 - 176

   

9. Biology of myospryn: what’s known?

   • Jaakko Sarparanta

   Review paper 13 January 2009 Pages: 177 - 180

   

10. Human adipocyte-derived factors directly inhibit cardiac contraction

    • Christiane Look
    • Ingo Morano
    • Valéria Lamounier-Zepter

    Report 27 February 2009 Pages: 181 - 184

    

11. Transgenic tools for Drosophila muscle research

    • Zacharias Orfanos

    Review Paper 17 January 2009 Pages: 185 - 188

    

12. Myofilament dysfunction in cardiac disease from mice to men

    • Nazha Hamdani
    • Monique de Waard
    • Jolanda van der Velden

    Review Paper Open access 13 January 2009 Pages: 189 - 201

    

13. Single amino acid sequence polymorphisms in rat cardiac troponin revealed by top–down tandem mass spectrometry

    • Raquel Sancho Solis
    • Ying Ge
    • Jeffery W. Walker

    Review Paper Open access 23 January 2009 Pages: 203 - 212

    

14. Gestalt-binding of tropomyosin to actin filaments

    • Kenneth C. Holmes
    • William Lehman

    Review Papepr Open access 31 December 2008 Pages: 213 - 219

    

15. Calcium-dependent signaling mechanisms and soleus fiber remodeling under gravitational unloading

    • Boris S. Shenkman
    • T. L. Nemirovskaya

    Original Paper 08 January 2009 Pages: 221 - 230

    

16. Pathological defects in congenital myopathies

    • Caroline A. Sewry

    Review Paper 30 December 2008 Pages: 231 - 238

    

17. From genotype to phenotype: a longitudinal study of a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy due to a mutation in the MYBPC3 gene

    • Adam Jacques
    • Anita C. Hoskins
    • Steven B. Marston

    Review Paper 14 February 2009 Pages: 239 - 246

    

18. Multiplicity of experimental approaches to therapy for genetic muscle diseases and necessity for population screening

    • Nigel G. Laing

    Review Paper 30 December 2008 Pages: 247 - 252

19. The XXXVII European muscle conference: Oxford September 2008

    • Sanford I. Bernstein
    • Michael A. Geeves

    Report 26 November 2008 Pages: 253 - 256

20. Abstracts presented at the XXXVII European Muscle Conference of the European Society for Muscle Research

    Abstracts 13 January 2009 Pages: 257 - 314