Intracoronary, adenovirus-mediated Akt gene transfer in heart limits infarct size following ischemia-reperfusion injury in vivo

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2397-2402

  Miao, Wenfeng ^a   Luo, Zhengyu ^b   Kitsis, Richard N ^a   Walsh, Kenneth ^b,c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Akt; Apoptosis; Area at risk; Infarct; Ischemia; Myocytes; Reperfusion

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PROTECTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACORONARY INFUSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0034517548     PISSN: 00222828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmcc.2000.1283     Document Type: Article

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