Preface.

1 general information (Hermann Dietrich).

2 Naturally occurring variation among mouse strains (Weibin Shi and Aldons J. Lusis).

3 Transgenic and Gene-targeted Mice of Hyperlipidemia (Yadong Huang).

4 Bone Marrow Transplantation: the methodology and its application in atherosclerosis research Menno (P.J. de Winter and Marten H. Hofker Introduction).

5 Hyperlipidemia-induced Atherosclerosis (Alan Daugherty and Debra L. Rateri).

6 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evaluation of Atherosclerotic Plaque (Martina A McAteer, Jurgen E. Schneider and Robin P. Choudhury).

7 Plaque Rupture (Christopher Jackson).

8 Perivascular Cuff-, Electronic- and Chemical Injury-induced Stenosis Nuno (M.M. Pires, Margreet R. de Vries, Abbey Schepers, Daniel Eefting, Jan-Willem H.P. Lardenoye and Paul H.A. Quax).

9 Flow-induced Vascular Remodeling (Vycheslav A. Korshunov and Bradford C. Berk).

10 Vein Graft Atherosclerosis (Yanhua Hu and Qingbo Xu).

11 Angiotensin II-induced aortic aneurysms (Yi-Xin Wang, Lisa A. Cassis and Alan Daugherty).

12 Carotidojugular Fistula (Yves Castier, Alain Tedgui and Stéphanie Lehoux).

13 Applications to the Study of Stroke (Jaques Seylaz and Elisabeth Pinard).

14 Identifying Congenital Heart Defects in Embryos Using High-resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Jürgen E. Schneider and Shoumo Bhattacharya).

15 Allograft Arteriopathy: Heterotopic Heart Transplantation and Aortic Interposition Grafts (Koichi Shimizu and Richard N. Mitchell).

16 Heart Preconditioning Analysis (Guang-Wu Wang, David A. Liem, Steven Le and Peipei Ping).

17 Myocardial Ischemia–Reperfusion (Bernhard Metzler, Elisabetta Conci and Omar Pachinger).

18 Cardiac Hypertrophy (David J. Grieve, Alison C. Cave and Ajay M. Shah).

19 The Retrogradely Perfused Isolated Heart Model (Mihaela M. Mocanu and Derek M. Yellon).

20 Measurement of Pulse Wave Velocity (Yi-Xin Wang).

21 Gene Transfer to Dyslipidemic Mice (Kazuhiro Oka, Andrew H. Baker and Lawrence Chan).

22 Hypertension (Daiana Weiss and W. Robert Taylor).

23 Ischemia-induced Neovascularisation (Ken-ichiro Sasaki, Christopher Heeschen, Alexandra Aicher and Stefanie Dimmeler).

24 Angiogenesis in Biomatrices and Artificial Materials (Pieter Koolwijk and Victor W.M. van Hinsburgh).

25 Venous Thrombosis (Alberto Smith, James Gossage and Bijan Moderai).

26 Virus-induced Vasculitis (Phillippe Krebs and Burkhard Ludewig).

27 Surgically induced Chronic Heart Failure (Craig A. Lygate and Stefan Neubauer).

28 Atrial Fibrillation (Sander Verheule, Toshiako Sato and Jeffrey E. Olgin).