Controversial issues in cardiac pathophysiology: Erwin Riesch Symposium, July 12/13, 1985

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Front Matter....Pages N1-N1
The cross-bridge cycle in muscle. Mechanical, biochemical, and structural studies on single skinned rabbit psoas fibers to characterize cross-bridge kinetics in muscle for correlation with the actomyosin-ATPase in solution....Pages 1-15
Calcium sensitivity of myofilaments in cardiac muscle — effect of myosin phosphorylation....Pages 17-23
Ca-pools involved in the regulation of cardiac contraction under positive inotropy. X-ray microanalysis on rapidly-frozen ventricular muscles of guinea-pig....Pages 25-32
The contribution of Na channel block to the negative inotropic effect of antiarrhythmic drugs....Pages 33-37
Front Matter....Pages N3-N3
Cardiac oxygen consumption and systolic pressure volume area....Pages 39-50
The concept of “end-systolic” pressure-volume and length-tension relations of the heart from a muscle physiologist’s point of view....Pages 51-57
Local myocardial and global ventricular function compared during positive inotropic medication....Pages 59-71
On the role of optimization in the cardiovascular system....Pages 73-78
Front Matter....Pages N5-N5
Some problems of cardiac energetics....Pages 79-94
Myothermal economy of rat myocardium, Chronic adaptation versus acute inotropism....Pages 95-102
The influence of myosin isoenzyme pattern on increase in myocardial oxygen consumption induced by catecholamines....Pages 103-115
Function and energy-rich phosphate content of the hypertrophied ventricle after global ischemia and reperfusion....Pages 117-125
Front Matter....Pages N7-N7
Metabolic aspects of the development of experimental cardiac hypertrophy....Pages 127-137
Intracellular turnover and cardiac hypertrophy....Pages 139-146
Correlation between total catecholamine content and redistribution of myosin isoenzymes in pressure loaded ventricular myocardium of the spontaneously hypertensive rat....Pages 147-155
Significance of physical exercise in hypertension. Influence of water temperature and beta-blockade on blood pressure, degree of cardiac hypertrophy and cardiac function in swimming training of spontaneously hypertensive rats....Pages 157-169
Basis and clinical significance of regression of hypertensive hypertrophy....Pages 171-178
Front Matter....Pages N9-N9
Histochemically determinable changes in cardiac insufficiency and their functional significance....Pages 179-192
Morphological reaction patterns in experimental cardiac hypertrophy — a quantitative stereological study....Pages 193-201
Pathophysiological mechanisms in cardiac insufficiency induced by chronic pressure overload — an attempt to analyze specific factors in animal experiment....Pages 203-216
Front Matter....Pages N9-N9
Immunologic regulator and effector functions in perimyocarditis, postmyocarditic heart muscle disease and dilated cardiomyopathy....Pages 217-241
Alterations of β -adrenoceptors subsequent to myocardial infarction....Pages 243-251