211-227
INVITED REVIEW
Vascular control in humans: focus on the coronary microcirculation
Yanping Liu and David D. Gutterman
228-237
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Role of the Innate Immune System in Acute Viral Myocarditis
Chien-Hua Huang, Jesus G. Vallejo, George Kollias and Douglas L. Mann
238-246
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Changes in cellular contractility and cytokines profile during Trypanosoma cruzi infection in mice
Danilo Roman-Campos, Hugo Leonardo L. Duarte, Policarpo A. Sales, Antonio J. Natali and Catherine Ropert, et al.
247-257
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Impact of myocardial inflammation on cytosolic and mitochondrial creatine kinase activity and expression
Linda Ebermann, Cornelia Piper, Uwe Kühl, Karin Klingel and Uwe Schlattner, et al.
258-268
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Effects of atorvastatin on calcium-regulating proteins: a possible mechanism to repair cardiac dysfunction in spontaneously hypertensive rats
Lei Yao, Guo-Ping Chen, Xian Lu, Liang-Rong Zheng and Yun Mou, et al.
269-284
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Aging-associated insulin resistance predisposes to hypertension and its reversal by exercise: the role of vascular vasorelaxation to insulin
Qiu-Xia Li, Zheng-Ying Xiong, Bai-Ping Hu, Zhen-Jun Tian and Hai-Feng Zhang, et al.
285-294
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Guggulsterone, an anti-inflammatory phytosterol, inhibits tissue factor and arterial thrombosis
Catherine Gebhard, Simon F. Stämpfli, Caroline E. Gebhard, Alexander Akhmedov and Alexander Breitenstein, et al.
295-306
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Modulation of L-type Ca2+ channel current density and inactivation by β-adrenergic stimulation during murine cardiac embryogenesis
Filomain Nguemo, Philipp Sasse, Bernd K. Fleischmann, Albert Kamanyi and Heribert Schunkert, et al.
307-320
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Oxidative stress induces myeloperoxidase expression in endocardial endothelial cells from patients with chronic heart failure
Giampiero La Rocca, Antonino Di Stefano, Ermanno Eleuteri, Rita Anzalone and Francesca Magno, et al.
321-332
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
The effect of enhanced gap junctional conductance on ventricular conduction in explanted hearts from patients with heart failure
Rob F. Wiegerinck, Jacques M. T. de Bakker, Tobias Opthof, Nicolaas de Jonge and Hans Kirkels, et al.
333-340
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
The S1P2 receptor expressed in human platelets is linked to the RhoA-Rho kinase pathway and is down regulated in type 2 diabetes
Voahanginirina Randriamboavonjy, Klaus Badenhoop, Helmut Schmidt, Gerd Geisslinger and Beate Fisslthaler, et al.
341-351
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Beta2-integrin activation on T cell subsets is an independent prognostic factor in unstable angina pectoris
Mathias H. Konstandin, Hülya Aksoy, Guido H. Wabnitz, Christian Volz and Christian Erbel, et al.
352-357
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
Regulation of platelet glycoprotein VI (GPVI) surface expression and of soluble GPVI in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and acute coronary syndrome (ACS)
Boris Bigalke, Konstantinos Stellos, Hans-Jörg Weig, Tobias Geisler and Peter Seizer, et al.