295-310
INVITED REVIEW
Postconditioning
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myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury
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311-319
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Design–based stereological estimation of the total number of cardiac myocytes in histological sections
A. Brüel and J. R. Nyengaard
320-327
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Parathyroid hormone–related peptide
improves contractile responsiveness of adult
rat cardiomyocytes with depressed cell function
irrespectively of oxidative inhibition
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328-336
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Cardioprotection following adenosine kinase inhibition in rat hearts
J. N. Peart and G. J. Gross
337-345
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Electrical interaction of mechanosensitive fibroblasts and myocytes in the heart
A. Kamkin, I. Kiseleva, I. Lozinsky and H. Scholz
346-354
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
A potential role for angiotensin II in obesity induced cardiac hypertrophy and ischaemic/reperfusion injury
E. F. du Toit, M. Nabben and A. Lochner
355-364
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Regional differences of superoxide dismutase activity enhance the superoxide–induced electrical heterogeneity in rabbit hearts
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365-371
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Verapamil prevents torsade de pointes by reduction of transmural dispersion of repolarization and suppression of early afterdepolarizations in an intact heart model of LQT3
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372-382
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
End–diastolic myofiber stress and ejection strain increase with ventricular volume overload
Serial in–vivo analyses in dogs with complete atrioventricular block
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383-386
MEETING REPORT
Protecting the myocardium at time of reperfusion
Meeting report of the Hatter Institute 4th International Workshop on Cardio–protection
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