Purines and Myocardial Protection

I: Purine Metabolism in the Heart.- 1. Physiologic and Pathophysiologic Significance of Purine Metabolism in the Heart.- 2. Purine Metabolism in the Ischemic Canine and Human Immature Myocardium Deficient of 5?-Nucleotidase.- 3. Cardiac adenosine Metabolism: Physiological Implications.- 4. Purines Metabolism in Human Cardiomyocytes and Endothelium-Implications for Protection of the Heart during Cardiac Surgery.- 5. Assessment of Interstitial Fluid Adenosine: Implications for Exogenous or Endogenous and Endogenous Adenosine-Mediated Cardioprotection.- 6. Adenosine and Coronary Vascular Pharmacology.- 7. Alternations in Energy Substrate Metabolism during Oxidative Stress.- II: Myocardial Protection with Purines.- 8. Purines and Myocardial Protection: An Overview.- A. Myocardial Protection with Endogenous Purines.- 9. Nucleoside Transport Protein: Properties and Regulation.- 10. Role of Nucleoside Transport in Myocardial Injury and Protection: Separation Between Ischemic and Reperfusion Injury using a Selective Nucleoside Transport Blocker, p-Nitrobenzylthoinosine NBMPR.- 11. Myocardial Protection using Nucleoside Transport Inhibitors.- 12. Selective Blockade of Nucleoside Transport by NBMPR Attenuates Reperfusion-Mediated Ventricular Arrhythmias.- 13. Nucleoside Transport in the Human Myocardium.- 14. Selective Nucleoside Transport Blocker NBMPR Attenuates Myocardial Stunning in a Rabbit Model Deficient of Xanthine Oxidase.- 15. Amplification of Endogenous adenosine by "Adenosine Regulating Agents" as a Therapeutic Approach to the Treatment of Cardiac Ischemic Syndromes.- B. Myocardial Protection with Exongenous Purines.- 16. Organ Protection with ATP-Magnesium Chloride.- 17. Adenosine and Adenosine Receptor Protection of the Ischemic Heart.- 18. Effect of Adenosineon Myocardial stunning.- 19. Cardioprotection from Ischemic-Reperfusion Injury by Adenosine.- 20. Cardioprotection with Adenosine, inosine and Hypoxanthine.- 21. Adenosine and Adrenergic Mediated Effects in