Table of Contents

1. Comparative Genetics of Heart Development: Conserved Cardiogenic Factors in Drosophila and Vertebrates.- 2. Microvascular Bed in Mammalian Hearts from Birth to Death of the Organism.- 3. Expression of Angiopoietins (-1 and -2) in Embryonic Rat Hearts during Coronary Vessel Development.- 4. The Development of the Ventricular Conduction System: Transgenic Insights.- 5. Cell Interactions with Extracellular Matrix during Perinatal Development of Myocardium.- 6. A Disintegrin and Metalloprotease (ADAMs) Family: Expression and Potential Roles in the Developing Heart.- 7. Cardiac Fibrosis during the Development of Heart Failure: New Insights into Smad Involvement.- 8. Developmental Changes in Calcium Channel Localization in Rat Heart: Influence of Thyroid Hormone and Pressure Overload.- 9. T-Type and L-Type Calcium Currents Modulate Force in Embryonic Chick Myocardium.- 10. Developmental Changes in Regulation of Cardiac Contractile Function.- 11. Developmental Changes of Sarcoplasmic Reticular Calcium Ion Transport and Phospholamban in Rat Heart.- 12. Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Function in the Developing Heart.- 13. Differences in Calcium Handling and Regulatory Mechanisms Between Neonatal and Adult Hearts.- 14. Metabolic Differences Between Pediatric and Adult Hearts: Implications for Cardiac Surgery.- 15. Molecular Phenotype of the Developing Heart with a Congenital Anomaly.- 16. Human Hibernating Myocardium-Development to Degeneration.- 17. Protection of the Developing Heart against Oxygen Deprivation.- 18. Molecular and Pharmacological Aspects of the Developing Heart.- 19. Increased Consumption of Vitamin A in the Heart Under Oxidative Stress.

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