Cellular Interactions in Cardiac Pathophysiology

I: Extracellular matrix and cardiocyte interaction.- Role of early reperfusion in the induction of adhesion molecules and cytokines in previously ischemic myocarium.- Importance of monocytes/macrophages and fibroblasts for healing of micronecroses in porcine myocardium.- Cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion molecules in human heart and lung transplants.- Progression of heart failure: A role for interstitial fibrosis.- Chronic hibernating myocardium: Interstitial changes.- Differences between atrial and ventricular protein profiling in children with congenital heart disease.- Ventricular remodeling: insights from pharmacologic interventions with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors.- Factors involved in capillary growth in the heart.- Biomechanical signals in the coronary artery triggering the metabolic processes during cardiac overload.- II: Myocytic adaptation and myocardial injury.- Oxidative stress and heart failure.- Structural and biochemical remodelling in catecholamine-induced cardiomyopathy: Comparative and ontogenetic aspects.- Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, left ventricular hypertrophy and fibrosis.- Influence of global ischemia on the sarcolemmal ATPases in the rat heart.- Response of the rat heart to catecholamines and thyroid hormones.- On the mechanism and possible therapeutic application of delayed adaptation of the heart to stress situations.- Ischaemic precondition in the rat heart: The role of G-proteins and adrenergic stimulation.- Adaptation of the heart to ischemia by preconditioning: Effects on energy equilibrium, properties of sarcolemmal ATPases and release of cardioprotective proteins.- Inhibition of cardiac sarcolemma Na+-K+ ATPase by oxyradical generating systems.- III: Signal transduction.- Alterations of?-adrenocepter-G-protein-regulated adenylyl cyclase in heart failure.- Immunocytochemical studies of the Gi Protein mediated muscarinic receptor-adenylyl cyclase system.- Renaissance of cytochemical localization of membrane ATPases in the myocardium.- Effects of selective ?1A-adrenoceptor antagonists on reperfusion arrhythmias in isolated rat hearts.- The role of catecholamines on intercellular coupling, myocardial cell synchronization and self ventricular defibrillation.- Inhibition of (Na/K)-ATPase by electrophilic substances: Functional implications.- Index to Volume 147.