The focus of this special issue of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry is underlying mechanisms that regulate cardiac growth. The new information provided in this special issue can be utilized to design new treatment modalities that will reduce the incidence of cardiac failure which will improve quality of life in patients with chronic heart disease.

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The focus of this special issue of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry is underlying mechanisms that regulate cardiac growth. The new information provided in this special issue can be utilized to design new treatment modalities that will reduce the incidence of cardiac failure which will improve quality of life in patients with chronic heart disease.

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Lysophospholipids do not directly modulate NA+-H+ exchange.- Antioxidant enzyme gene expression in congestive heart failure following myocardial infarction.- Modulation of cardiac remodeling by adenosine: In vitro and in vivo effects.- Right ventricular collagen and fibronectin levels in patients with pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect.- A mouse model of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by a ?-tropomyosin mutation.- Analysis of postextrasystolic relaxation response in the human heart.- Differential effects of calpain inhibitors on hypertrophy of cardiomyocytes.- Cardiac adaptation to endurance exercise in rats.- Matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors attenuate endotoxemia induced cardiac dysfunction: A potential role for MMP-9.- Functional and structural characterization of anti-?1-adrenoceptor autoantibodies of spontaneously hypertensive rats.- Quinapril inhibits progression of heart failure and fibrosis in rats with dilated cardiomyopathy after Myocarditis.- Calpain-1-dependent degradation of troponin I mutants found in familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.- Gender mediated cardiac protection from adverse ventricular remodeling is abolished by ovariectomy.- Protein kinase C isoform-selective signals that lead to cardiac hypertrophy and the progression of heart failure.- Contractile effects of adenovirally-mediated increases in SERCA2a activity: A comparison between adult rat and rabbit ventricular myocytes.- Losartan inhibits myosin isoform shift after myocardial infarction in rats.- Mechanism of cell death of rat cardiac fibroblasts induced by serum depletion.- Effect of propranolol on cardiac cytokine expression after myocardial infarction in rats.- Revisiting the surgical creation of volume load by aorto-caval shunt in rats.- Proteomicanalysis of Rac1 transgenic mice displaying dilated cardiomyopathy reveals an increase in creatine kinase M-chain protein abundance.- Adenosine and cardioprotection during reperfusion an overview.- Index to Volume 251.