Friends & Foes of the Cardiac Myocyte

Healthy versus sick myocyte: metabolism, structure, and function.
Defining the friends and foes
R. Ferrari

How best to control the lack of oxygen in the ischemic cardiomyocyte?
F. Crea, G. A. Lanza

How best to achieve heart rate control in coronary artery disease patients?
N. Danchin

Diabetes: what’s the best strategy for blood glucose?
U. Ayyagari, P. Dyson, D. Matthews

Matters @ Heart: Paul Ehrlich and his magic bullets
R. J. Bing

M. J. Shattock

Abrupt reoxygenation of the anoxic potassium-arrested perfused rat heart: a study of myocardial enzyme release
D. J. Hearse and others

Effect of alpha-tocopherol on hypoxic-perfused and reoxygenated rabbit heart muscle
C. Guarnieri and others

The “wavefront phenomenon” of myocardial ischemic cell death. II. Transmural progression of necrosis within the framework of ischemic bed size (myocardium at risk) and collateral flow
K. A. Reimer and R. B. Jennings

ATP-regulated K+ channels in cardiac muscle
A. Noma

Direct measurement of free radical generation following reperfusion of ischemic myocardium
J. L. Zweier and others

Role of intracellular Na+ in Ca2+ overload and depressed recovery of ventricular function of reperfused ischemic rat hearts. Possible involvement of H+-Na+ and Na+-Ca2+ exchange
M. Tani and J. R. Neely

The hibernating myocardium
S. H. Rahimtoola

Cardiac stress protein elevation 24 hours after brief ischemia or heat stress is associated with resistance to myocardial infarction
M. S. Marber and others

Reperfusion injury induces apoptosis in rabbit cardiomyocytes
R. A. Gottlieb and others

Mitochondrial non-specific pores remain closed during cardiac ischaemia, but open upon reperfusion
E. J. Griffiths and A. P. Halestrap