The Cellular Basis of Cardiovascular Function in Health and Disease: Developments in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, cartea 22

I: Vascular changes in health and disease.- Analysis of responses to human synthetic adrenomedullin and calcitonin gene-related peptides in the hindlimb vascular bed of the cat.- Effect of short-term treatment with a monoclonal antibody to P-selectin on balloon cathether-induced: Intimal hyperplasia, re-endothelialization, and attenuation of endothelial-dependent relaxation.- Differential regulation of G-protein expression by vasoactive peptides.- Endothelin contraction in pig coronary artery: Receptor types and Ca2+-mobilization.- Activation of the neutrophil and loss of plasma glutathione during Mg-deficiency — modulation by nitric oxide synthase inhibition.- Velocity of translation of single actin filaments (AF) by myosin heads from antigen-sensitized airway smooth muscle.- Smooth muscle contractility and protein tyrosine phosphorylation.- Coronary artery smooth muscle in culture: migration of heterogeneous cell populations from vessel wall.- An overview of the influence of ACE inhibitors on fetal-placental circulation and perinatal development.- II: Cardiac mechanisms in health.- Differential nature of cross-talk among three G-coupled receptors regulating adenylyl cyclase in rat cardiomyocytes chronically exposed to receptor agonists.- Reversal of phosphate induced decreases in force by the benzimidazole pyridazinone, UD-CG 212 CL, in myofilaments from human ventricle.- Expression of fibroblast growth factor receptor-1 in rat heart H9c2 myoblasts increases cell proliferation.- Identification of an HMG-like protein involved in regulation of Na+/H+ exchanger expression.- Cytochemical and immuoncytochemical localization of Na,K-ATPase ? subunit isoenzymes in the rat heart.- Estradiol modulates the sodium pump in the heart sarcolemma.- Thyroid hormones differentiallyaffect sarcoplasmic reticulum function in rat atria and ventricles.- Dietary and physiological studies to investigate the relationship between calcium and magnesium signalling in the mammalian myocardium.- Biological significance of phosphorylation and myristoylation in the regulation of cardiac muscle proteins.- Contributions of increased efficiency and capacity of protein synthesis to rapid cardiac growth.- Cell-cycle dependent anti-FGF-2 staining of chicken cardiac myocytes: Movement from chromosomal to cleavage furrow- and midbody-associated sites.- An endogenous positive inotropic factor (EPIF) from porcine heart: Its effects on sarcoplasmic reticular (SR) Ca2+ metabolism.- III: Subcellular changes in cardiomyopathies and heart failure.- Prostaglandins attenuate cardiac contractile dysfunction produced by free radical generation but not by hydrogen peroxide.- Changes in fatty acid compositions of myocardial lipids in rats with heart failure following myocardial infarction.- Mechanisms that may be involved in calcium tolerance of the diabetic heart.- Increases of T-type Ca2+ current in heart cells of the cardiomyopathic hamster.- Myocardial functional preservation during ischemia: Influence of beta blocking agents.- Phosphorylation by protein kinase C and the responsiveness of Mg2+-ATPase to Ca2+ of myofibrils isolated from stunned and non-stunned porcine myocardium.- Is there a link between impaired glucose metabolism and protein kinase C activity in the diabetic heart?.- A new technique of coronary artery ligation: Experimental myocardial infarction in rats in vivo with reduced mortality.- Adriamycin depresses in vivo and in vitro phos-phatidylethanolamine N-Methylation in rat heart sarcolemma.- A calcium stimulated cysteine protease involved in isoproterenol induced cardiac hypertrophy.- Early fetal like slow Na+ current in heart cells of cardiomyopathic hamster.- Na+-H+ exchange inhibition at reperfusion is cardioprotective during myocardial ischemia-reperfusion; 31PNMR studies.- Increased gene expression of plasminogen activators and inhibitors in left ventricular hypertrophy.- Cardiac hypertrophy: Old concepts, new perspectives.- Characteristics of the myocardial PM-FABP: Effect of diabetes mellitus.- Cardiomyopathies and mitochondrial DNA mutations.- Cardiac depression and cellular injury in hemorrhagic shock and reinfusion: Role of free radicals.- Ischemic preconditioning is not additive to preservation with hypothermia or crystalloid cardioplegia in the globally ischemic rat heart.- IV: Cellular biochemistry in non-cardiovascular tissues.- Regulation of Ca2+ homeostasis by glucose metabolism in rat brain.- Age- and sex-related differences in nuclear lipid content and nucleoside triphosphatase activity in the JCR:LA-cp corpulent rat.- Studies on hepatic injury and antioxidant enzyme activities in rat subcellular organelles following in vivo ischemia and reperfusion.- Index to Volume 176.