New Aspects in the Treatment of Failing Heart

I: Ischemic Myocardial Damage.- Postischemic Myocardial Dysfunction (Myocardial “Stunning”): Role of Oxidative Stress.- Degradation of Membrane Phospholipids in the Ischemic and Reperfused Heart.- Protective Effects of Antiarrhythmic Agents on Oxygen-Deficiency-Induced Contractile Dysfunction of Isolated Perfused Hearts.- Ischemic Myocardial Damage.- II: Cardiomyopathy.- Role of Protein Kinase System in the Signal Transduction of Stretch-mediated Myocyte Growth.- Cellular Mechanisms of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy.- PI Response and Calcium Overload in Cardiomyopathic Hamster Heart Cell.- Mitochondrial DNA Mutations in Cardiomyopathy.- Disrupted Microtubule Structure in the Ischemic and Failing Myocardium — The Role of Calcium Overload.- III: Signal Transduction in Myocardial Cells.- GTP-binding Proteins and Bacterial Toxin-catalyzed ADP-ribosylation.- Regulation of the Gs Protein in the Heart.- Alterations in ?-Adrenergic Receptors in Response to Myocardial Ischemia and their Role in Arrhythmogenesis.- Enzyme-Specific Desensitization of Adenylyl Cyclase in Hypertrophied Heart in Monocrotaline-Treated Rats.- A Mechanism of Catecholamine Tolerance in Congestive Heart Failure.- IV: Electrophysiological Abnormalities in Failing Heart.- Regulation of Calcium Slow Channels in Myocardial Cells by Cyclic Nucleotides and Phosphorylation.- Electrophysiological Abnormalities in Cardiac Hypertrophy.- Altered Responsiveness to Humoral Factors in Cardiac Myocytes of Cardiomyopathic Syrian Hamsters.- Stretch-Activated Current in Rabbit Cardiac Myocytes.- V: Drug Therapy of Failing Heart.- Evaluation of Functional Capacity of Patients with Congestive Heart Failure.- Progress of Treatment and Changing Views on the Role of Compensatory Mechanisms in Chronic Heart Failure.- Cardiotonic Drugs, Intracellular Calcium, and Failing Heart.- Myocardial Calcium Sensitivity and Energy Turnover as Modulated by Inorganic Phosphate and EMD 53998, a Novel Inotropic Agent.- VI: Ischemic Heart Disease.- Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Effort Angina Pectoris.- The Effect of N,N,N-Trimethylsphingosine on Reperfusion Injury.- VII: Signal Transduction.- Possible Prerequisite Morphological Changes Preceeding Cell Damage During Hypoxia-Reoxygenation in Cardiac Myocytes.- Opioid Modulation of Cardiac Sympathetic Nerve Activity of Baroreceptor Reflex in Rats.- VIII: Congestive Heart Failure.- Clinical Efficacy of Flosequinan in Patients with Mild Chronic Heart Failure: a Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study.- Clinical Efficacy of Pimobendan for Patients with Chronic Heart Failure — A Dose Finding Study by a Multicenter Double Blind Trial —.- Effect of Lisinopril on Hemodynamics and Cardiac Hypertrophy in Rats with Aortocaval Fistula.- Increased Plasma Lipid Peroxide in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure.- Dopamine Sulfate and the Cardiovascular System.- Systemic Study of the Hemodynamic Effects of Nitroglycerin in Conscious Dogs: New Aspect of Mechanism of its Antianginal Action.- Load Dependence of Systolic and Diastolic LV Function — On-line Recorded in the Isolated Perfused Guinea Pig Heart. Effects of Ouabain, Caffeine, Gallopamil and [Mg++]0.- Different Load Dependence of -dp/dtmax in Rat and Guinea Pig Hearts and the Influence of Ouabain and Caffeine.- Depressed Endothelium-Dependent Vesodilator Response in the Hindquarter Resistance Vessels in Heart Failure Dogs.- Effects of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide on Systemic and Regional Hemodynamics in Dogs with Congestive Heart Failure.- Remarkable Improvement in Congestive Heart Failure in Ventricular Septal Rupture by Dopexamine Infusion.- Direct Prevention Against Progressive 201TL Perfusion Defects by Captopril Treatment in Patients with Mild to Moderate Heart Failure.- An Optimal Control Strategy for Regulation of Cardiovascular System.- Myocardial Protection with Ryanodine and CoQ10 Against Post-ischemic Reperfusion Injury of Rabbit Heart.- Angiotensin II Potentiates Collagen Synthesis in the Hypertrophied Heart.- Polyphosphoinositide Metabolism in Hypertrophic Rat Heart.- Cardiovascular Effects of SK&F 64139, a PNMT Inhibitor, in Rats.- IX: Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Myopathy.- Expression of c-fos mRNA by Acute Pressure Overload in Perfused Rat Heart.- Spontaneous Arrhythmias and Heart Rate Variability in Several Models of Cardiac Hypertrophy in Rat: a Holter Monitoring Study.- Does Angiotensin II Accelerate Protein Synthesis in Adult Rat Hearts?.- Stretch Induces Hypertrophic Growth Through Renin-Angiotensin System in Cultured Neonatal Rat Myocytes.- Does Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Change into Dilated Cardiomyopathy-Like Features?.- Likage Analyses of Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.- Presence of Angiotensinogen and Renin mRNAs and Angiotensinogen Protein in the Human Heart.- Alteration in Cardiac Renin-Angiotensin System in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHR).- Keyword Index.