JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS

Editor-In-Chief BRAMAH N. SINGH, MD, DPhil, FRCP Los Angeles, CA Consulting Editors A. JOHN CAMM, MD, London, England NARANJAN S. DHALLA, MD, Winnipeg, Canada VICTOR DZAU, MD, Boston, MA VALENTIN FUSTER, MD, PhD, New York, NY Associate Editors KEITARO HASHIMOTO, MD, Yamanashi, Japan ROBERT A. KLONER, MD, PHD, Los Angeles, CA JAWAHAR L. MEHTA, MD, PHD, Gainesville, FL JULIUS GY. PAPP, MD, DSC, Szeged, Hungary ARNOLD SCHWARTZ , MD, Cincinnati, OH Section Editor JAWAHAR L. MEHTA, MD, PhD, Little Rock, AR ARNOLD SCHWARTZ , MD, Cincinnati, OH Editorial Board Inder Anand, MD, FRCP, Dphil (Oxon), Minneapolis, MN Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD, Salt Lake City, UT Charles Antzelevitch, MD, Utica, NY Rohit Arora, MD, FACC,N. Chicago, IL Jerry L. Bauman, PharmD, Chicago, IL Jeffrey S. Borer, MD, New York, NY Hanspeter Brunner-La Rocca, MD, Switzerland Terence J. Campbell, MD, Sydney, Australia Francesco Cantu',Pavia, Italy Alassandro Capucci, MD, FACC, FESC, Piacenzo, Italy Bojan Cercek, MD, PhD, Los Angeles, CA Sumeet Chugh, MD, Portland, OR Harry J.G.M. Crijns, MD, PhD, Los Angeles, CA William E. Dager, PharmD, FCSHP, Sacramento, CA Paul Dorian, MD, Ontario, Canada Samuel C. Dudley, Jr., MD, PhD, Decatur, GA Ramin Ebrahimi, MD, Los Angelses, CA Moses Elisaf, MD, Ioannina, Greece Marcelo Victor Elizari, MD, Buenos Aires, Argentina Uri Elkayam, MD, Los Angeles, CA Michael D. Ezekowitz, MD, ChB, PhD, Philadelphia, PA Gregory Feld, MD, San Diego, CA James S. Forrester, MD, Los Angeles, CA

Antonio M. Gotto, Jr, MD, DPhil, New York, NY Gabriel B. Habib, MD, Houston, TX Stefan H. Hohnloser, MD, Frankfurt, Germany Hiroshi Inoue, MD,Toyama, Japan Bodh I. Jugdutt, MD, Alberta, Canada Cyrus R. Kumana, MD, Hong Kong, China Barton Levine, MD, Los Angeles, CA Dayuan Li, MD, PhD, Little Rock, AR Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, Boston, MA Benedict R. Lucchesi, MD, PhD, Ann Arbor, MI Dennis B. McNamara, PhD, Pittsburgh, PA Dimitri P. Mikhailidis, MD, FACA, FCRP, London, UK Hideo Mitamura, MD, PHD, Tokoyo, Japan Freny Vaghaiwalla Mody, MD, Los Angeles, CA Fred Morady, MD, Ann Arbor, MI Gerald V. Naccarelli, MD, Hershey, PA Koonlawee Nademanee, MD, Inglewood, CA Haruaki Nakaya, MD, PhD, Chiba, Japan Carl Napolitano, MD, PhD, Pavia, Italy Jagat Narula, MD, PhD, Orange, CA Marc A. Pfeffer, MD, PhD, Boston, MA Matthias E. Pfisterer, MD, Basel, Switzerland Kailash Prasad, MD, PhD,FRCP, FACC, FICA, Saskatoon, Canada Silvia G. Priori, MD, PhD, Pavia, Italy Arshed A. Quyyumi, MD, Atlanta, GA Clive Rosendorff, MD, PhD, Bronx, NY Stanley Rubin, MD, Los Angeles, CA Shigetake Sasayama, MD, Shizuyoka, Japan Ernst Schwarz, MD, PhD, Galveston, TX Prediman K. Shah, MD, Los Angeles, CA Pawan K. Singal, PhD, DSc, FACC, Manitoba, Canada John R. Teerlink, MD, San Francisco, CA Max Harry Weil, MD, PhD, Rancho Mirage, CA James N. Weiss, MD, Los Angeles, CA James T. Willerson, MD, Houston, TX Douglas P. Zipes, MD, Indianapolis, IN