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Postconditioning with levosimendan reduces the infarct size involving the PI3K pathway and KATP-channel activation but is independent of PDE-III inhibition
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169-179
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Cardioselective nitric oxide synthase 3 gene transfer protects against myocardial reperfusion injury
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181-192
Original Contribution
Effects of a protocol of ischemic postconditioning and/or captopril in hearts of normotensive and hypertensive rats
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193-203
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Simvastatin in contrast to postconditioning reduces infarct size in hyperlipidemic rabbits: possible role of oxidative/nitrosative stress attenuation
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205-218
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Anti-inflammatory effect of oxytocin in rat myocardial infarction
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219-226
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Depressed expression of MuRF1 and MAFbx in areas remote of recent myocardial infarction: a mechanism contributing to myocardial remodeling?
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227-234
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Is remodeling the dominant compensatory mechanism in both chronic heart failure with preserved and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction?
David H. MacIver
235-245
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Endothelin-B receptors and ventricular arrhythmogenesis in the rat model of acute myocardial infarction
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247-256
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Aldosterone improves contractile function of adult rat ventricular cardiomyocytes in a non-acute way: potential relationship to the calcium paradox of aldosteronism
Sibylle Wenzel, Ilhan Tastan, Yaser Abdallah, Rolf Schreckenberg and Klaus-Dieter Schlüter
257-266
Original Contribution
Nitric oxide/cGMP signalling mediates the cardioprotective action of adrenomedullin in reperfused myocardium
Shabaz A. Hamid, Matthias Totzeck, Christina Drexhage, Iain Thompson and Robert C. Fowkes, et al.
267-277
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Transcriptional regulation of Pim-1 kinase in vascular smooth muscle cells and its role for proliferation
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279-287
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Open AccessK201 improves aspects of the contractile performance of human failing myocardium via reduction in Ca2+ leak from the sarcoplasmic reticulum
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289-300
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Open AccessProtein kinase C α and ε phosphorylation of troponin and myosin binding protein C reduce Ca2+ sensitivity in human myocardium
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301-313
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FGF-inducible 14-kDa protein (Fn14) is regulated via the RhoA/ROCK kinase pathway in cardiomyocytes and mediates nuclear factor-kappaB activation by TWEAK
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