Cell Physiology and Cell Biology of Myocardial Cell Caveolae

The sections in this article are: 1 Caveolae 2 Ultrastructure 3 Morphometric Studies 4 Accessibility of the Lumens of Caveolae to Extracellular Macromolecules 5 Opening and Closure of Cardiac Myocyte Caveolae 6 Reversible Changes in Myocardial Cell Caveolar Volume and Surface Density in Hypertonic Solutions 7 Hypertonic Solutions Increase Mean Caveolar Neck Surface Density and Diameter 8 Water-Channel Proteins in Mammalian Cardiac Myocytes 9 Temperature Dependence of the Co-Localization of Aquaporin-1 With Caveolin3 10 Physiological Role of Aquaporin-1 in Human Cardiac Myocyte Caveolae 11 Relationship of Atrial Myocyte Caveolae to Atrial Granules 12 Localization of the Type B Atrial Natriuretic Peptide Receptor in Atrial Myocyte Caveolae 13 Co-Localization of Endothelium-Derived Nitric Oxide Synthase With Caveolin3 in Rat Cardiac Myocyte Caveolae 14 Endothelin and Protein Kinase C Isoforms in Cardiac Myocyte Caveolae 15 Immunoelectron Microscopic Localization of the Monocarboxylate Transporter, MCT-1 in in Situ Rat Left Ventricular Myocytes 16 Neuregulin Binding to its Receptor in Cardiac Myocyte Caveolae 17 Adenosine A1 Receptor in Adult Cardiac Ventricular Myocytes 18 Exploration of Possible Interactions of Cardiac Myocyte Caveolae With Extracellular Matrix and Cytoskeleton-Associated Proteins: Dystrophin and Dystroglycan 19 Dynamic Clustering of Sphingolipids and Cholesterol to form Functional “Rafts” in Cellular Membranes 20 Development of More Efficient, Specific, and Sensitive Methods for Identifying the Intracaveolar and Caveolae-Bound Proteins of Cardiac Myocytes 21 Selected General Topics in Caveolar or Caveolae-Relevant Biology 21.1 Physical considerations—caveolae as plasma membrane microdomains or plasma membrane-associated microdomains 21.2 Caveolar Proteins 21.3 Other Caveolar Proteins: Reality vs. Artifact