1. Preface

   • Yoshio Yazaki
   • Seibu Mochizuki

   Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 1 - 1

2. Control of growth in neonatal pig hearts

   • Cathy J. Beinlich
   • Howard E. Morgan

   Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 3 - 9

3. Role of protein kinase system in the signal transduction of stretch-mediated protooncogene expression and hypertrophy of cardiac myocytes

   • Yoshio Yazaki
   • Issei Komuro
   • Ryozo Nagai

   Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 11 - 16

4. Growth factor for cardiac hypertrophy

   • Makoto Nagano
   • Tadanari Ohkubo
   • Makoto Nagai

   Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 17 - 22

5. Effect of angiotensin coverting enzyme inhibitor on regression in cardiac hypertrophy

   • Naoki Makino
   • Hirosuke Matsui
   • Takashi Yanaga

   Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 23 - 28

6. Differing responses of G2-related genes during differentiation of HL60 cells induced by TPA or DMSO

   • Junko Horiguchi-Yamada
   • Hisashi Yamada

   Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 29 - 34

7. Mechanistic effects of kijimicin on inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus replication

   • Teruo Yamauchi
   • Mariko Nakamura
   • Tsuneya Ohno

   Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 35 - 41

8. Function and energy metabolism of isolated hearts obtained from hyperthyroid spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR)

   • M. Heckmann
   • S. Lortet
   • H. G. Zimmer

   Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 43 - 50

9. Increased calcium release from sarcoplasmic reticulum stimulated by inositol trisphosphate in spontaneously hypertensive rat heart cells

   • Hideaki Kawaguchi
   • Hitoshi Sano
   • Akira Kitabatake

   Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 51 - 57

10. Radial spread of aequorin Ca²⁺ signal in single frog skeletal muscle fibers

    • Masato Konishi
    • Satoshi Kurihara

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 59 - 66

11. Cardiac contractile proteins and autoimmune myocarditis

    • Tohru Izumi
    • Haruo Hanawa
    • Makoto Kodama

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 67 - 71

12. Force-frequency-relation in human atrial and ventricular myocardium

    • Robert H. G. Schwinger
    • Michael Böhm
    • Erland Erdmann

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 73 - 78

13. Depressed sliding velocity of isolated cardiac myosin from cardiomyopathic hamsters: Evidence for an alteration in mechanical interaction of actomyosin

    • Hiroshi Yamashita
    • Seiryo Sugiura
    • Shin-ichi Momomura

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 79 - 88

14. Abnormalities of ADP/ATP carrier protein in J-2-N cardiomyopathic hamsters

    • Mitsutoshi Kato
    • Jie Yang
    • Nobuakira Takeda

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 89 - 94

15. Age-associated damage in mitochondrial DNA in human hearts

    • Mika Hayakawa
    • Satoru Sugiyama
    • Takayuki Ozawa

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 95 - 103

16. Mitochondrial DNA deletion in human myocardium

    • Nobuakira Takeda
    • Akira Tanamura
    • Kenji Noma

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 105 - 108

17. Ischemic changes in myocardial ionic contents of the isolated perfused rat hearts as studied by NMR

    • Takaharu Ishibashi
    • Mikio Nakazawa
    • Shoichi Imai

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 109 - 120

18. ³¹P-NMR magnetization transfer study of reperfused rat heart

    • Akira Kobayashi
    • Yoshimi Okayama
    • Noboru Yamazaki

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 121 - 127

19. Release of 6-KETO-PGF_1α and thromboxane B₂ in late appearing cardioprotection induced by the stable PGI analogue: 7-OXO-PGI

    • László Szekeres
    • Árpád Tósaki

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 129 - 132

20. Effects of iloprost, a PGI₂ derivative, on ischemic myocardial energy and carbohydrate metabolism in dogs

    • Kazuo Ichihara
    • Kiminobu Yamamoto
    • Yasushi Abiko

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 133 - 141

21. Cardioprotective actions of wild garlic (Allium ursinum) in ischemia and reperfusion

    • B. Rietz
    • H. Isensee
    • R. Jacob

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 143 - 150

22. Na⁺/H⁺ exchanger and reperfusion-induced ventricular arrhythmias in isolated perfused heart: possible role of amiloride

    • Seibu Mochizuki
    • Shingo Seki
    • Shin-ichiro Ishikawa

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 151 - 157

23. Effects of a new class I antiarrhythmic drug bidisomide on canine ventricular arrhythmia models

    • Wu Zhenjiu
    • Takeo Awaji
    • Keitaro Hashimoto

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 159 - 169

24. Antimicrobial activity of lipoprotein particles containing apolipoprotein Al

    • Norio Tada
    • Takuya Sakamoto
    • Kosei Kurosaka

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 171 - 178

25. Molecular characteristics in Japanese patients with lipidosis: Novel mutations in metachromatic leukodystrophy and Gaucher disease

    • Yoshikatsu Eto
    • Hiroshi Kawame
    • Toshiharu Tokoro

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 179 - 184

26. Characterization of adenylyl cyclase in heart sarcolemma in the absence or presence of alamethicin

    • Rajat Sethi
    • Ken S. Dhalla
    • Naranjan S. Dhalla

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 185 - 193

27. Cyclic AMP metabolism in intact rat ventricular cardiac myocytes: Interaction of carbachol with isoproterenol and 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine

    • Yumi Katano
    • Masao Endoh

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 195 - 201

28. Purification and properties of pyridoxal kinase from bovine brain

    • Tae Hirakawa-Sakurai
    • Kiyoshi Ohkawa
    • Makoto Matsuda

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 203 - 207

29. Modulation of the effect of glibenclamide on K_ATP channels by ATP and ADP

    • László Virág
    • Tetsushi Furukawa
    • Masayasu Hiraoka

    Cellular Function and Metabolism Pages: 209 - 215