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Editorial Board & Instructions to Authors

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Rapid Shallow Breathing Index and Its Predictive Accuracy Measured under Five Different Ventilatory Strategies in the Same Patient Group
Mauo-Ying Bien, You Shuei Lin, Huei-Guan Shie, You-Lan Yang, Chung-Hung Shih, Jia-Horng Wang, and Kuo-Chen Cheng

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Identification of an Autoantibody against the Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen from a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Tsai-Ching Hsu, Joung-Liang Lan, Shao-Hsuan Kao, Sin-Lun Li, Yin-Chang Liu, Chih-Yang Huang, and Bor-Show Tzang

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Effects of Short-Term Dehydroepiandrosterone Supplementation on Body Composition in Young Athletes
Sergej M. Ostojic, Julio Calleja, and Morteza Jourkesh

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Effect of Lithium on Secretory Factors and Growth Stimulation by Bombesin in Rat Pancreas and Salivary Glands
Mehrak Javadi-Paydar, Shahaboddin Vojdanpak, Maryam Pour-Ali, Hosein Halajian, Payam Ghazi, Fatemeh Shahsavari, Seyed Hasan Emami-Razavi, and Ahmad Reza Dehpour

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Attenuation of Pulmonary Arterial Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation Following Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension by the Na+/H+ Exchange Inhibitor Amiloride
Yi Liu, Bo Zhang, Ming-qing Dong, Wen Niu, Ying Luo, Yu-qi Gao, and Zhi-chao Li

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Reduction of Superior Mesenteric Hemodynamic Responsiveness to [Sar1, Thr8]-Angiotensin II and Bradykinin, But Not Sodium Nitroprusside, in the Presence of Homocysteine Infusion
Chia-Hung Yen, Yunn-Hwa Ma, Huang-Ping Yu, and Ying-Tung Lau

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Differences in the Pattern of Ventricular Activation in Small Rodents Determined by Morphological Organization of the Cardiac Ventricular Conduction System
Toon A.B. van Veen, Lisette E.G. Hubens, Jacques M.T. de Bakker, and Harold V.M. van Rijen

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Effect of Mild Intermittent Hypoxia on Glucose Tolerance, Muscle Morphology and AMPK-PGC-1α Signaing
Chung-Yu Chen, Ying-Lan Tsai, Chung-Lan Kao, Shin-Da Lee, Ming-Chieh Wu, Mallikarjuna K, Yi-Hung Liao, John L. Ivy, and Chia-Hua Kuo

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Acknowledgment to Reviewers

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Errata

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Future Articles

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Announcement

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