501-513
REVIEW
Limitation of myocardial infarct size in the clinical setting: current status and challenges in translating animal experiments into clinical therapy
Tetsuji Miura and Takayuki Miki
514-524
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
TGF-β1 enhances cardiomyogenic differentiation of skeletal muscle-derived adult primitive cells
Ahmed Abdel-Latif, Ewa K. Zuba-Surma, Jamie Case, Sumit Tiwari and Greg Hunt, et al.
525-536
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Intravenous infusion of mesenchymal stem cells enhances regional perfusion and improves ventricular function in a porcine model of myocardial infarction
Michael E. Halkos, Zhi-Qing Zhao, Faraz Kerendi, Ning-Ping Wang and Rong Jiang, et al.
537-551
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Effects of unipolar stimulation on voltage and calcium distributions in the isolated rabbit heart
Veniamin Y. Sidorov, Mark R. Holcomb, Marcella C. Woods, Richard A. Gray and John P. Wikswo
552-559
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Reduced calcium responsiveness characterizes contractile dysfunction following coronary microembolization
Andreas Skyschally, Petra Gres, Patrick van Caster, Anita van de Sand and Kerstin Boengler, et al.
560-568
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Ischemia-reperfusion injury and cardioprotection: investigating PTEN, the phosphatase that negatively regulates PI3K, using a congenital model of PTEN haploinsufficiency
Hilary K. Siddall, Clare E. Warrell, Derek M. Yellon and Mihaela M. Mocanu
569-571
INVITED EDITORIAL
Impaired interaction between platelets and endothelial progenitor cells in diabetic patients
Petra Kleinbongard and Artur-Aron Weber
572-581
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Impaired interaction of platelets with endothelial progenitor cells in patients with cardiovascular risk factors
Elisabeth Dernbach, Voahanginirina Randriamboavonjy, Ingrid Fleming, Andreas M. Zeiher and Stefanie Dimmeler, et al.
582-586
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Impaired endothelial progenitor cell function predicts age-dependent carotid intimal thickening
Stefanie Keymel, Christoph Kalka, Tienush Rassaf, Yerem Yeghiazarians and Malte Kelm, et al.
587-597
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Impact of atherosclerotic plaque composition on coronary microembolization during percutaneous coronary interventions
Dirk Böse, Clemens von Birgelen, Xiu Ying Zhou, Axel Schmermund and Sebastian Philipp, et al.
598-610
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
A novel-1364A/C aquaporin 5 gene promoter polymorphism influences the responses to salt loading of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and of blood pressure in young healthy men
Michael Adamzik, Ulrich H. Frey, Kathrin Bitzer, Heinz Jakob and Hideo A. Baba, et al.