1. Does bradykinin play a role in the cardiac antiischemic effect of the ACE-inhibitors?

   • P. A. Martorana
   • W. Linz
   • B. A. Schölkens

   Editorial Pages: 293 - 296

2. Regional myocardial glucose utilization by developing fetal and maternal hearts

   • D. R. Kostreva
   • J. D. Wood

   Original contributions Pages: 297 - 302

3. Enhanced cardiac angiotensinogen gene expression and angiotensin converting enzyme activity in tachypacing-induced heart failure in rats

   • M. Finckh
   • W. Hellmann
   • J. Holtz

   Original contributions Pages: 303 - 316

4. Beneficial actions of acidotic initial reperfusate in stunned myocardium of rat hearts

   • Naruto Matsuda
   • Hiroaki Kuroda
   • Tohru Mori

   OriginalPaper Pages: 317 - 326

5. Participation of calcium ions in the molecular mechanism of cardioprotective action of exogenous phosphocreatine

   • E. A. Konorev
   • N. V. Medvedeva
   • V. A. Saks

   OriginalPaper Pages: 327 - 339

6. Deleterious effects of digitalis on reperfusion-induced arrhythmias and myocardial injury in ischemic rat hearts: possible involvements of myocardial Na⁺ and Ca²⁺ imbalance

   • M. Tani
   • J. R. Neely

   OriginalPaper Pages: 340 - 354

7. The effect of selected antiarrhythmic drugs on neutrophil free oxygen radicals production measured by chemiluminescence

   • T. Siminiak
   • H. Wysocki
   • H. R. Maurer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 355 - 362

8. Variations in myocardial contraction sequence under various hypoxic conditions

   • M. Akaishi
   • T. Ikegawa
   • Y. Nakamura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 363 - 377

9. Left ventricular shape-luminal pressure relationship An open-chest study

   • A. F. Grimm
   • B. R. Grimm
   • A. M. Tichy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 378 - 392

10. Dynamic analysis of left-ventricular shape based on curvature function

    • M. Halmann
    • Samuel Sideman
    • R. Beyar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 393 - 401

11. Increased 19 kDa protein phosphorylation and protein kinase C activity in pressure-overload cardiac hypertrophy

    • B. Kwiatkowska-Patzer
    • K. Domańska-Janik

    OriginalPaper Pages: 402 - 409