The Third International Symposium on Lipid Metabolism in the Normoxic and Ischemic Heart was held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 1991. The topics of this meetings focused on: modulation of myocardial lipid metabolism; biological membranes: structure, function and turnover; pharmacological modification of myocardial fatty acid oxidation; and myocardial vascular endothelium: contribution to myocardial lipid homeostasis.

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