Biochemistry of Diabetes and Atherosclerosis

Content.- Preface.- Inhibition of glycation reaction in tissue protein incubations by water soluble rutin derivative.- Comparative analysis of the phenolic content of selected Chilean, Canadian and American Merlot red wines.- Absence of ischemic preconditioning protection in diabetic sheep hearts: Role of sarcolemmal KATP channel dysfunction.- Protein kinase B in the diabetic heart.- Inhibition of interleukin-1 ? convertase is associated with decrease of neointimal hyperplasia after coronary artery stenting in pigs.- Effects of MCC-135 on Ca2+ uptake by sarcoplasmic reticulum and myofilament sensitivity to Ca2+ in isolated ventricular muscles of rats with diabetic cardiomyopathy.- Effect of sarpogrelate on altered STZ-diabetes induced cardiovascular responses to 5-hydroxytryptamine in rats.- Mitogen-activated protein kinases in the acute diabetic myocardium.- Association between coronary endothelial dysfunction and local inflammation of atherosclerotic coronary arteries.- Arteriosclerosis in rat aortic allografts: Dynamics of cell growth, apoptosis and expression of extracellular matrix proteins.- Effect of chronic treatment with losartan on streptozotocin-induced renal dysfunction.- The relationship between human cytomegalovirus infection and atherosclerosis development.- Changes in substrate metabolism in isolated mouse hearts following ischemia-reperfusion.- A comparison between NMR and GCMS 13C-isotopomer analysis in cardiac metabolism.- Chronic diabetes alters function and expression of ryanodine receptor calcium-release channels in rat hearts.- The relationship between QTc interval and cardiac autonomie neuropathy in diabetes mellitus.- Antioxidants decreases the intensification of low density lipoprotein in vivo peroxidation during therapy with statins.- Nativeand minimally oxidized low density lipoprotein depress smooth muscle matrix metalloproteinase levels.- Low matrix metalloproteinase levels precede vascular lesion formation in the JCR:LA-cp rat.- Impairment of glucose metabolism and energy transfer in the rat heart.- Ischemie tolerance of rat hearts in acute and chronic phases of experimental diabetes.- Remodelling of the sarcolemma in diabetic rat hearts: The role of membrane fluidity.- Index to Volume 249.