Preface. - Control of growth in neonatal pig hearts. - Role of protein kinase system in the signal transduction of stretch-mediated protooncogene expression and hypertrophy of cardiac myocytes. - Growth factor for cardiac hypertrophy. - Effect of angiotensin coverting enzyme inhibitor on regression in cardiac hypertrophy. - Differing responses of G2-related genes during differentiation of HL60 cells induced by TPA or DMSO. - Mechanistic effects of kijimicin on inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus replication. - Function and energy metabolism of isolated hearts obtained from hyperthyroid spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). A 3lp-nuclear magnetic resonance study. - Increased calcium release from sarcoplasmic reticulum stimulated by inositol trisphosphate in spontaneously hypertensive rat heart cells. - Radical spread of aequorin Ca2+ signal in single frog skeletal muscle fibers. - Cardiac contractile proteins and autoimmune myocarditis. - Force-frequency-relation in human atrial and ventricular myocardium. - Depressed sliding velocity of isolated cardiac myosin from cardiomyopathic hamsters: Evidence for an alteration in mechanical interaction of actomyosin. - Abnormalities of ADP/ATP carrier protein in J-2-N cardiomyopathic hamsters. - Age-associated damage in mitochondrial DNA in human hearts. - Mitochondrial DNA deletion in human myocardium. - Ischemic changes in myocardial ionic contents of the isolated perfused rat hearts as studied by NMR. - 31P-NMR magnetization transfer study of reperfused rat heart. - Release of 6-KETO-PGF1? and thromboxane B2 in late appearing cardioprotection induced by the stable PGI analogue: 7-OXO-PGI. - Effects of iloprost a PGI2 derivative on ischemic myocardial energy and carbohydrate metabolism in dogs. - Cardioprotective actions of wild garlic(Allium ursinum) in ischemia and reperfusion. - Na+/H+ exchanger and reperfusion-induced ventricular arrhythmias in isolated perfused heart: Possible role of amiloride. - Effects of a new class I antiarrhythmic drug bidisomide on canine ventricular arrhythmia models. - Antimicrobial activity of lipoprotein particles containing apolipoprotein Al. - Molecular characteristics in Japanese patients with lipidosis: Novel mutations in metachromatic leukodystrophy and Gaucher disease. - Characterization of adenylyl cyclase in heart sarcolemma in the absence of presence of alamethicin. - Cyclic AMP metabolism in intact rat ventricular cardiac myocytes: Interaction of carbachol with isoproterenol and 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine. - Purification and properties of pyridoxal kinase from bovine brain. - Modulation of the effect of glibenclamide on KATP channels by ATP and ADP. Language: English