Lipid Metabolism in the Healthy and Disease Heart Book

	Preface	1
	Paradoxical role of lipid metabolism in heart function and dysfunction	3
	Interrelationship between lactate and cardiac fatty acid metabolism	11
	Dietary modulation of lipid metabolism and mechanical performance of the heart	19
	The substrate specificity of phosphoinositide-phospholipase C in rat heart sarcolemma	27
	Long term incubation of cardiac myocytes with oleic acid and very low density lipoprotein reduces heparin-releasable lipoprotein lipase activity	33
	Carnitine palmitoyltransferase in the heart is controlled by a different mechanism than the hepatic enzyme	39
	Myocardial cell vulnerability to exogenous phospholipase attack	47
	Phosphatidylcholine metabolism in ischemic and hypoxic hearts	53
	Occurrence and functions of the phosphatidylinositol cycle in the myocardium	59
	Modulation of phosphatidylethanolamine biosynthesis by exogenous ethanolamine and analogues in the hamster heart	69
	Eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic cultured rat ventricular myocytes and hypoxia-induced alterations of phospholipase-A activity	75
	Incorporation of radioiodinated fatty acids into cardiac phospholipids of normoxic canine myocardium	79
	Kinetic changes of ethanolamine base exchange activity and increase of viscosity in sarcolemmal membranes of hamster heart during development of cardiomyopathy	89
	Annexins in cardiac tissue: cellular localization and effect on phospholipase activity	95
	Myocardial fatty acid oxidation during ischemia and reperfusion	103
	The relative contribution of glucose and fatty acids to ATP production in hearts reperfused following ischemia	111
	Effects of palmitoyl CoA and palmitoyl carnitine on the membrane potential and Mg[superscript 2+] content of rat heart mitochondria	117
	Carnitine requirement of vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells in imminent ischemia	125
	Protection of the ischemic diabetic heart by L-propionylcarnitine therapy	131
	Functional and metabolic effects of propionyl L-carnitine in the isolated perfused hypertrophied rat heart	139
	L - propionylcarnitine and myocardial performance in stunned porcine myocardium	147
	Release of heart fatty acid-binding protein into plasma after acute myocardial infarction in man	155
	Regulatory functions of the coronary endothelium	163
	Lipid metabolism of myocardial endothelial cells	171
	Endothelium, the dynamic interface in cardiac lipid transport	181
	Malondialdehyde is a biochemical marker of peroxidative damage in the isolated reperfused rat heart	193
	Studies on the interaction of leucocytes and the myocardial vasculature. I. Effect of hypoxia on the adherence of blood granulocytes	197
	Arachidonic acid incorporation in cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells and fibroblast-like cells isolated from adult rat heart	203
	Index	211