1. Protective effect of Crataegus oxyacantha against reperfusion arrhythmias after global no-flow ischemia in the rat heart

   • S. Al Makdessi
   • H. Sweidan
   • R. Jacob

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 71 - 77

2. Establishment of a long-surviving murine model of myocardial infarction: Qualitative and quantitative conventional microscopic findings during pathological evolution

   • H. Kumashiro
   • S. Kusachi
   • T. Tsuji

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 78 - 84

3. Angiogenesis and microvascularization after cryothermia-induced myocardial infarction: A quantitative fluorescence microscopic study in rats

   • H. Huwer
   • J. Rissland
   • H.J. Schäfers

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 85 - 93

4. Effect of non-selective endothelin blockade, TAK-044, on the ischemic cellular injury of rat heart

   • E. Geshi
   • A. Nomizo
   • T. Katagiri

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 94 - 101

5. The volatile anesthetic sevoflurane mitigates cardiodepressive effects of platelets in reperfused hearts

   • B. Heindl
   • P.F. Conzen
   • B.F. Becker

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 102 - 111

6. The expression of heat shock protein 60 in patients with dilated cardiomyophathy

   • N. Latif
   • P.M. Taylor
   • M.J. Dunn

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 112 - 119

7. Altered force-frequency relation in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy

   • U. Schotten
   • S. Voss
   • C. Schumacher

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 120 - 127

8. Comparison between angiotensin receptor antagonism and converting enzyme inhibition in heart failure

   • J. Su
   • F. Barbe
   • L. Hittinger

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 128 - 135

9. Naloxone blockade of myocardial ischemic preconditioning does not require central nervous system participation

   • G.L. Chien
   • K. Mohtadi
   • D.M. Van Winkle

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 136 - 143