Table of Contents

I: Cancer.- Timing of dietary fat exposure and mammary tumorigenesis: Role of estrogen receptor and protein kinase C activity.- Dissociation of vitamin D3 and anti-estrogen mediated growth regulation in MCF-7 breast cancer cells.- Sodium butyrate induces retinoblastoma protein dephosphorylation, p16 expression and growth arrest of colon cancer cells.- II: Cell growth and development.- Regulation of adipocyte gene expression by polyunsaturated fatty acids.- The molecular basis for the role of zinc in developmental biology.- Maturation of fatty acid and carbohydrate metabolism in the newborn heart.- Genes regulating copper metabolism.- Zinc and immunity.- III: Diabetes.- Vanadium and diabetes.- Effect of enterai nutritional products differing in carbohydrate and fat on indices of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in patients with NIDDM.- Cardiac sarcolemmal Na+-Ca2+ exchange and Na+-K+ ATPase activities and gene expression in alloxan-induced diabetes in rats.- Role of oxygen derived radicals for vascular dysfunction in the diabetic heart: Prevention by ?-tocopherol?.- Cardiovascular disease in the JCR:LA-cp rat.- IV: Vascular dysfunction.- Nutritional and endocrine modulation of intracellular calcium: Implications in obesity, insulin resistance and hypertension.- Hypertension, calcium channel and pyridoxine (vitamin B6).- LDL oxidation by arterial wall macrophages depends on the oxidative status in the lipoprotein and in the cells: Role of prooxidants vs. antioxidants.- Modulation of adriamycin-induced changes in serum free fatty acids, albumin and cardiac oxidative stress.- V: Heart disease.- An A/G-rich motif in the rat fibroblast growth factor-2 gene confers enhancer activity on a heterologous promoter in neonatal rat cardiac myocytes.- Influence of different cultureconditions on sarcoplasmic reticular calcium transport in isolated neonatal rat cardiomyocytes.- Taurine indirectly increases [Ca]i by inducing Ca2+ influx through the Na+-Ca2+ exchanger.- Effects of long-term treatment with eicosapentaenoic acid on the heart subjected to ischemia/reperfusion and hypoxia/reoxygenation in rats.- Differential influence of fasting and BM13.907 treatment on growth and phenotype of pressure overloaded rat heart.- On the mechanism of the phospholipase C-mediated attenuation of cardiolipin biosynthesis in H9c2 cardiac myoblast cells.- Development of pressure overload induced cardiac hypertrophy is unaffected by long-term treatment with losartan.- Index to Volume 188.

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