Archives of Medical Research The Editorial Board and Staff of Archives of Medical Research extend their appreciation to the following reviewers for their assistance with manuscripts during 2006: Kevin Abbott, USA Mohammed Abdalla-Abbas, Italy Mohamed Badawy Abdel-Naser, Egypt Ahmed Abdulshaheed-Mubarak, Qatar Dario Acuña-Castroviejo, Spain Jeroen Aerssens, Belgium Fernan Agüero, Argentina Guillermin Agüero-Chapin, Cuba Carlos Aguilar-Salinas, Mexico Alvaro Aguilar-Setién, Mexico Ranjeet S. Ajmani, India Melinda Aldrich, USA Joseph Martin Alisky, USA Dario Carlo Alpini, Italy Celia Alpuche, Mexico Bjorn Anderstam, Sweden Belkis Aracena-Genao, Mexico Mohammad Ali Arami, Islamic Republic of Iran Dan E. Arking, USA Wilbert S. Aronow, USA Alberto Ascherio, USA Astrid Baalbergen, The Netherlands Oswaldo Baffa, Brazil Roberto Baldelli, Italy Feng Bao, Canada Jean Baptiste-Vanderpas, Belgium Sibel Baris, Turkey Alan Barrett, USA José Luis Bartha, Spain Samar Basu, Sweden Chris Bates, UK Gerhard Baumann, USA Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Mexico Claudio Bazzi, Italy Abdulkadir Bedirli, Turkey Tomasz Bednarczuk, Poland Gloria Benítez-King, Mexico Ann Mike Bennett, Australia Ludmil Benov, Kuwait Marge Berer, UK Rolf Berge, Norway Christian Ernst Berger, Austria Odilia Bermúdez, USA Paolo Bernardeschi, Italy Hans Gert Bernstein, Germany Reinaldo Bulgarelli Bestetti, Brazil Anil Bhansali, India Giuseppe Bianchi, Italy Velio Alvaro Bocci, Italy Sema Bolkent, Turkey
Massimiliano Bonafe, Italy Luigi Bonavina, Italy Denise Bonds, USA Nicolas Bonnet, France Mario Bonomini, Italy Jean-Francois Bosset, France Lucy Bradley-Springer, USA Rodolfo Roberto Brenner, Argentina Monique Breteler, The Netherlands Matthew Bridges, UK Carlo Briguori, Italy David J. Bronster, USA Jack Brown, USA Neil Bruce, Mexico Murat Bulent-Rabus, Turkey Lars Bullinger, Germany Jason Walter Busse, Canada Neil Campbell, UK Manuel Cárdenas-Loaeza, Mexico Carmine Cardillo, Italy Rita Carmona, Brazil Alessandra Carnevale, Mexico Sebastián Carranza-Lira, Mexico María A. Cavasin, USA Mario Cervantes-Vázquez, USA Ricard Cervera-Segura, Spain Filomena Cetani, Italy Yvon Chagnon, Canada Daniel TM. Chan, China Vikas Chander, India Day-Yu Chao, USA Junshi Chen, China Raúl Cicero-Sabido, Mexico Angel Cid-Arregui, Germany Francesco Cipollone, Italy Alfredo Colosimo, Italy María Teresa Conconi, Italy David Conen, Switzerland Rubén Gerardo Contreras-Patiño, Mexico William C. Copeland, USA Giangennaro Coppola, Italy Peter Corr, United Arab Emirates Egle Corrado, Italy Richard GH. Cotton, Australia Edward West Cowen, USA Reto Cramer i, Switzerland Dominique Crenesse, France Anna Czlonkowska, Poland Erik Dabelsteen, Denmark Taner Damci, Turkey Marc De Hert, Belgium
Robert de Jonge, The Netherlands Antonio De Salles, USA Vincent Descamps, France Philippe Desprès, France Mario Di Napoli, Italy Leanne M. Dibbens, Australia Meletios-Ioannis Dimopoulos, Greece Begona Diosdado, The Netherlands Dean E. Dluzen, USA Slavica Dodig, Croatia Hisham Dokainish, USA Francesco Domenico-Pisani, Italy Yuan-Lin Dong, USA Jirˇí Dosˇ ka rˇ, Czech Republic Dipak K. Dube, USA Benoit Dugué, France Guy Ebinger, Belgium Jesús Egido, Spain Erik A. Eklund, Sweden Elahe Elahi, Islamic Republic of Iran David Evans, Germany Maximilian von Eynatten, Germany Dania Fabre-Ortiz, Cuba John N. Fain, USA Andrea Fattorossi, Italy Zahi Fayad, USA Dafna Feinholz, Mexico Imre Fejes, Hungary Zheng Feng, USA Robert J. Ferry, Jr., USA Josef Finsterer, Austria Javier Enrique Fonseca, Colombia Gregory S. Fraley, USA Flavia Franconi, Italy Robert Fraser, UK David Frazer, Australia George Fust, Hungary Peter Gaede, Denmark Thomas Gal, USA Boris Gala, Cuba Pietro Galassetti, USA Manuel Galinanes, UK Beatriz Garat, Uruguay Joaquín García-Estan, Spain Douglas Edward Garland, USA Kyra A. Gelderman, Sweden Donato Gemmati, Italy Michael Germain, USA Francesco Giuseppe De Rosa, Italy Ron Simon Gold, Australia María Eugenia Gonsebatt, Mexico
Deyarina González, Cuba Shannon Goswick, USA Eric V. Granowitz, USA Josef Georg Grohs, Austria José Fernando Guadalajara, Mexico Carmen Guaza-Rodríguez, Spain Régis Guieu, France Sibel Guldiken, Turkey Gunay Gurleyik, Turkey Maureen Hack, USA Per Syrak Hansen, Denmark Rudiger Hardeland, Germany Sivadasan Pillai Harikrishnan, India Yukio Hayashi, Japan Helen Healy, Australia August Heidland, Germany Christoph U. Herborn, Germany Klaus R. Herrlinger, Germany Paul B. Higgins, USA Shigehiro Hirose, Japan Shinichi Hirose, Japan Toru Hiyama, Japan Shirley V. Hodgson, UK Paul L. Hofman, New Zealand Edward C. Holmes, USA Chen-Jee Hong, Taiwan Walter Hong-Shong Chang, Taiwan Peng Huang, USA Kirsi Huoponen, Finland Kazim Husain, Puerto Rico Bernhard Iglseder, Austria Ken-ichiro Inoue, Japan Cecilia Invitti, Italy Saskia J. te Velde, The Netherlands Luis Jara, Mexico Marie Jarosova, Czech Republic Kathrine Jáuregui-Renaud, Mexico Weiping P. Jia, China Gregory Jon-Anderson, Australia Lynne C. Jones, USA Yun Jong-Lee, Republic of Korea Shuntaro Kagiyama, Japan Piotr Kalicinski, Poland John Kalns, USA Mehmet Kanbay, Turkey Deniz Karakaya, Turkey Mehrbod Karimi, Islamic Republic of Iran Tamihiro Kawakami, Japan Nancy Kemeny, USA Duraisamy Kempuraj, USA Mark Kenneth-Greenwald, USA Phouthone Keohavong, USA Reinhold Kerbl, Austria Edward Killan, UK Mitsunobu Kishino, Japan Yasutoshi Koga, Japan Hans Peter Kohler, Switzerland Siegfried Kohler, Germany Katsuro Koike, Japan Giaslakiotis Konstantinos, Greece Nikolay Konstantinovich-Isaev, Russian Federation
Yrjö T. Konttinen, Finland Nicholas G. Kounis, Greece Marius Kränzlin, Switzerland Troels Krarup-Hansen, Denmark Prem Kumar, UK U. Ajith Kumar, USA Maris Laan, Estonia Henry Lai, USA José I. Lao-Villadóniga, Spain Fernando Larrea, Mexico Paul A. Lawson, USA Andreas C. Lazaris, Greece Jean Michael Le Melledo, Canada Jacques Le Pendu, France Kyu-Sup Lee, Republic of Korea Hsin-Chen Lee, Taiwan Chen-Hsen Lee, Taiwan Adelino F. Leite-Moreira, Portugal Israel Lerman, Mexico Wai K. Leung, Hong Kong Daniel Ka Leung-Cheuk, Hong Kong Tracy J. Lightfoot, UK Virgilio Lima-Gómez, Mexico Ton Lisman, The Netherlands Joachim Listing, Germany Chi-Feng Liu, Taiwan Luis Llorente, Mexico Carmelina Loguercio, Italy Fernando Lolas S., Chile Enrico Lombardi, Italy Abel López-Bermejo, Spain Sâmia Regiane Lourenço Joca, Brazil Wieslawa Lysiak-Szydlowska, Poland Darryl Macer, Thailand Robert G. MacKenzie, USA Rob MacLaren, USA John E. Madias, USA Giuseppe Maggiore, Italy Ashok Malla, Canada Carlos Alberto Mandarim-de-Lacerda, Brazil Harald Mangge, Austria Derek A. Mann, UK Carlo Manno, Italy Armando Mansilla-Olivares, Mexico Claudiu Margaritescu, Romania Jorge Márquez, Mexico Amelia Martí, Spain Carlos Martínez-Duncker, Mexico Miguel A. Martínez-González, Spain Salvatore Masala, Italy Kousaku Matsubara, Japan Shin Matsuoka, Japan Hiroshi Matsushita, USA Antonella Mattana, Italy Mary Frances McMullin, UK Juris J. Meier, Germany Horacio Merchant, Republic of Moldova Martín Merkel, Germany Ozcan Met, Denmark Jonathan Meyer, USA Lisa A. Michaels, USA
Javad Mikaeli, Islamic Republic of Iran Aubrey Milunsky, USA Mike Mitchell, UK Balraj Mittal, India Yasuyoshi Miyata, Japan Michel Modo, UK John Moffett, USA José Moreno, Mexico Brian James Morris, Australia Jens Mortensen, Denmark Firoozeh Mousavinasab, Finland Christian Mueller, Switzerland Thomas Muller, Germany Alastair J. Munro, UK Peter Mwaba, Zambia Ioannis Mylonas, Germany Sudeshni Naidoo, South Africa Masaomi Nangaku, Japan David T. Nash, USA Juan F. Navarro, Spain Robert Travis Neff, USA Ernest HY. Ng, Japan Gary Nicholls, New Zealand Stephen J. Nicholls, USA Jo Nijs, Belgium Akiyoshi Nishikawa, Japan Takeshi Nishikawa, Japan Christoph Nissen, USA Aina Noguera, Spain Peter A. Nolte, The Netherlands Hervé Normand, France Anne Nørremølle, Denmark Natalija Novak, Germany Fiona Oakley, UK Edwin V. Oaks, USA Yutaka Ogata, Japan Yoshihisa Okamoto, USA Carlos Ortega-González, Mexico Læge Torben Østergård, Denmark Ernesto Oviedo-Orta, UK Michitaka Ozaki, Japan Laura Pagani, Italy Christopher Palestro, USA Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Greece Nicola Pannacciulli, USA Christodoulos E. Papadopoulos, Greece Charalabos C. Papageorgiou, Greece Ioannis Papassotiriou, Greece Ryan L. Parr, Canada Marcela F. Pasetti, USA Marco G. Patti, USA Tony A. Payton, UK Carlos Pedra, Brazil José-Luis Pérez-Castrillón, Spain Lennart Carl Philipson, Sweden Franck Picard, France Robert Pichler, Austria Laurence Pieroni, France David Charles Pim, Italy Enrique Piña, Mexico Carlos José Pirola, Argentina Mariavittoria Pitzalis, Italy
Jan Plzak, Czech Republic Adrián Poblano, Mexico Roberto Pola, Italy Nicole Pommery, France Piero Porcelli, Italy Zoltan Prohaszka, Hungary Raj S. Pruthi, USA Luca Puccetti, Italy Salvatore Puciarrelli, Italy María Guadalupe Quiñonez-Silva, Mexico N. Soorappan Rajasekaran, USA Sanmukh Ratilal Joshi, Oman Andreas Reif, Germany Raul C. Ribeiro, USA Frank Riedel, Germany Antonio Rios, Spain Stephen Roberts, USA Kim Robien, USA M. Monica Rocco, Italy Nicolas Roche, France Gerardo Rodríguez-Diez, Mexico Sang-Gun Roh, Japan Susanne Rohrbach, Germany Emilio Rojas, Mexico Hanna Rosenmann, Israel Hana Ross, USA Lisa Ross, USA Martin Rudwaleit, Germany Guillermo José Ruiz-Argüelles, Mexico Kaisa M. Saari, Finland Shunei Saito, Japan Anastacio Salazar-Bañuel, Canada Francesco Salvatore, Italy Jonathan Samet, USA Caron Sandhu, UK David Sane, USA Cecilia Luiza Santos, Brazil Leopoldo Santos-Argumedo, Mexico Jasna Saponjic, USA Emre Sarandol, Turkey Geoff Saunders, UK Frank AJL. Scheer, USA Michael Schirmer, Austria Joachim Schneider, Germany Bernhard Ulrich Schulte, Germany Ann Schwartz, USA
Gabriela Senti, Switzerland Marcos Serrano-Duenas, Ecuador Patrick Serruys, The Netherlands Kuninori Shiwaku, Japan Thomas Shpitzer, Israel Lisa M. Shulman, USA Pierpaolo Sileri, Italy Rosane Silva, Brazil Henry Silver, Israel Gonul Simsek, Turkey Mehmet Simsek, Oman Helmut Sinzinger, Austria Shimon Slavin, Israel Duncan Richard Smith, Thailand Daniel T. Smith, USA Manuel Sobrinho-Simões, Portugal Kwang-Sup Soh, Republic of Korea Andrew Spillane, Australia Pramod K. Srivastava, USA Giorgio Stassi, Italy Ken Stein, UK Birgit Steppich, Germany Martin Sterba, Czech Republic Wim J. Stevens, Belgium Guido Stoll, Germany Martin Storr, Germany Jon C. Strefford, UK Hans Stricker, Switzerland Anwar Hussein Subratty, Republic of Mauritius Zhaoli Sun, USA Eiji Suzuki, Japan Josef Syka, Czech Republic Dariusz Szukiewicz, Poland Muhamed-Kheir Taha, France Yuji Tajiri, Japan Kohzo Takebayashi, Japan Shu Takeda, Japan Wilson H. Tang, USA Sibel Tas, Turkey Gyula Telegdy, Hungary Andreas Teufel, Germany Bernard YH. Thong, Singapore David Ian Thurnham, UK Armando Tovar-Palacio, Mexico Hideaki Toyoshima, Japan
Elisabetta Trabetti, Italy Alejandro Treviño-Becerra, Mexico Carsten Tschöpe, Germany Carolyn Louise Turvey, USA Dimitrios Tziakas, Greece Ayako Ueki, Japan Hasim Ustunsoy, Turkey Mario H. Vargas, Mexico Pedro Fernando Vasconcelos, Brazil Sotirios Vastardis, USA Mario I. Vega, Mexico Pierfrancesco Veroux, Italy María Luisa Villarreal, Mexico Jeannine Villella, USA Shlomo Vinker, Israel Atko-Meeme Viru, Estonia Nicola Volpi, Italy Henry Völzke, Germany Stefan Viktor Vormfelde, Germany Matti Vuento, Finland Sanja Vujisic, Croatia Wanchai Wanachiwanawin, Thailand Qing Wang, USA Scott Weaver, USA Klaus M. Weinberger, Austria Cara Weisbrod, Australia Annemarie MJ. Wensing, The Netherlands Iris Caroline Dominique Westendorp, The Netherlands Robert T. Wheeler, USA Bridget Wilcken, Australia Tania Winzenberg, Australia Tadeusz Wroblewski, Poland Serap Yalin, Turkey Ping Yang, USA Yutaka Yonemura, Japan Akira Yoshikawa, Japan Giovanni Zaninotto, Italy Marek Zmyslony, Poland Heinz Zotter, Austria Giuseppe Zuccala, Italy Zhiyi Zuo, USA