MEDICUS

Editor-in-Chief

Milovan Matovic

Co-Editors

Nebojsa Arsenijevic, Zoran Matovic, Slobodan Jankovic, Milan Mijailovic, Zorica Lazic

Board of Editors

Tomislav Djokic, Vesna Starcevic, Mirjana Pavlovic, Ljiljana Scepanovic, Dragan Djuric, Bogdan Beselin, Dusan Mitrovic, Predrag Djordjevic, Nebojsa Lalic, Danica Matic, Velibor Obradovic, Goran Lukic, Predrag Ristic

Editorial Staff

Dragan Milovanovic , Dejan Baskic, Ivan Miloradovic , Dusica Obradovic , Goran Petrovic, Vladimir Jakovljevic

MEDICUS
is published twice yearly, cirkulation 200 issues.
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TOM* - EICOSANOID SYSTEM AND ENDOTHELIUM: THE ROLE IN INFLAMMATION AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS Vujadin M. Mujovic, Vladimir Lj. Jakovljevic, Dragan M. Djuric Institute of Physiology, University School of Medicine, Belgrade Institute of Physiology, Fakulty of Medicine, Kragujevac

THE IMPORTANCE OF HOMOCYSTEINE IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING CORONARY BY-PASS SURGERY Dragan Djuric, Vladimir Kanjuh, Vujadin Mujovic, Vladimir Jakovljevic, Milan Savic, Dusan Mitrovic, Ruzica Jurcevic, Veselin Mitrovic Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases "Dedinje“, Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia Department of Cardiovascuar Pathology, Serbian Academy of Sciences, Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, FR Yugoslavia Special hospital for cerebrovascular diseases "St. Sava", Belgrade Department of Cardiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Kerckhoff-Klinik GmbH, Max Planck Institute for Physiological and Clinical Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany

NUCLEOSIDES AND NUCLEOSIDE ANALOGUES IN THE HEART - TRANSPORT AND ROLES Dusan M. Mitrovic, Dragana Dekanski, Milos M. Petrovic, Dragan M. Djuric Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

THE ROLE OF POTASSIUM CHANNEL MODULATORS IN THE MODERN CARDIOVASCULAR THERAPY Ljiljana C. Gojkovic Bukarica, Tomislav M. Kazic, Bojana B. Beleslin-Cokic, Aleksandra N. Novakovic, Zoran D. Sajic, Miodrag S. Peric, Bosko P. Dukanovic, Vladimir I. Kanjuh Institute of clinical pharmacology, pharmacology and toxicology, School of Medicine, Belgrade Yugoslavia

THE INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT CALCIUM CHANNEL ANTAGONISTS ON CORONARY CIRCULATION OF THE ISOLATED RAT HEART: INTERACTION WITH L-ARGININE: NO SYSTEM Vladimir Lj. Jakovljevic, Vujadin M. Mujovic, Nebojsa Tasic, Slobodan S. Novokmet, Momcilo M. Miloradovic, Vladimir Kanjuh, Dragan M. Djuric Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, FR Yugoslavia Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases "Dedinje“, Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia Department of Cardiology, CHC "Kragujevac“, FR Yugoslavia Department of Cardiovascular Pathology, Serbian Academy of Sciences, Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia

ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION IN DIABETES MELLITUS Ljiljana M. Bajovic Department of Endocrinology, CHC "Kragujevac, Medical Faculty, Kragujevac

THE IMPORTANCE OF LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION FOR EARLY AND DEFFINITIVELLY PROGNOSIS OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION Milenko Vuckovic, Milovan Matovic, Violeta Iric-Cupic, Marina Kovacevic, Vladimir Jakovljevic, Predrag Djurdevic Department of Cardiology, Internal clinic, CHC "Kragujevac" Department of Nuclear Medicine, CHC "Kragujevac"

ENDOTHELIAL CELL (DIS)FUNCTION IN PREECLAMPSIA Goran M. Babic, Ljiljana M. Dragicevic-Dokovic, Vladimir Lj. Jakovljevic, Snezana D. Maletic, Milosav M. Kostic Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Kragujevac Clinics of Obstretics and Gynaecology, Clinical Hospital Centre Kragujevac