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EDITORIAL
Tribute to Wolfgang Schaper on the occasion of his 75th birthday
Gerd Heusch
2-4
EDITORIAL
On the occasion of Wolfgang Schaper’s 75th birthday
Kerstin Boengler, Ivo Buschmann, Elisabeth Deindl, Martin Gottwik and Hans Martin Hoffmeister, et al.
5-21
INVITED EDITORIAL
Open AccessCollateral circulation
Past and present
Wolfgang Schaper
22-32
REVIEW
Innate immunity and myocardial adaptation to ischemia
Hanne Støre Valeur and Guro Valen
33-41
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Contribution of IKr and IK1 to ventricular repolarization in canine and human myocytes: is there any influence of action potential duration?
Norbert Jost, Károly Acsai, Balázs Horváth, Tamás Bányász and István Baczkó, et al.
42-49
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Advanced glycation end products depress function of endothelial progenitor cells via p38 and ERK 1/2 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways
Chengbo Sun, Chun Liang, Yusheng Ren, Yi Zhen and Zhiqing He, et al.
50-59
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Activation of sphingosine kinase by muscarinic receptors enhances NO-mediated and attenuates EDHF-mediated vasorelaxation
Arthur C. M. Mulders, Marie-Jeanne Mathy, Dagmar Meyer zu Heringdorf, Michael ter Braak and Najat Hajji, et al.
60-68
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Propylthiouracil, independent of its antithyroid effect, decreases VSMC collagen expression
Wei-Jan Chen, Jong-Hwei S. Pang, Kwang-Huei Lin and Su-Hui Yang
69-77
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Thyroid hormone improves postischaemic recovery of function while limiting apoptosis: a new therapeutic approach to support hemodynamics in the setting of ischaemia-reperfusion?
Constantinos Pantos, Iordanis Mourouzis, Theodosios Saranteas, Guillaume Clavé and Heidi Ligeret, et al.
78-89
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
TNF-α induced shedding of the endothelial glycocalyx is prevented by hydrocortisone and antithrombin
Daniel Chappell, Klaus Hofmann-Kiefer, Matthias Jacob, Markus Rehm and Josef Briegel, et al.
90-99
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Identification of mutational hot spots in
LMNA
encoding lamin A/C in patients with familial dilated cardiomyopathy
Andreas Perrot, Shwan Hussein, Volker Ruppert, Hartmut H. J. Schmidt and Manfred S. Wehnert, et al.
100-110
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Green and black tea are equally potent stimuli of NO production and vasodilation: new insights into tea ingredients involved
Mario Lorenz, Janka Urban, Ulrich Engelhardt, Gert Baumann and Karl Stangl, et al.