Enhanced cardioprotection against ischemia-reperfusion injury with combining sildenafil with low-dose atorvastatin

Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-36

  Rosanio, Salvatore ^a   Ye, Yumei ^a   Atar, Shaul ^a   Rahman, Atiar M ^a   Freeberg, Sheldon Y ^a   Huang, Ming He ^a   Uretsky, Barry F ^a   Birnbaum, Yochai ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atorvastatin; Infarct size; Ischemia reperfusion injury; Nitric oxide synthase; Sildenafil

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SILDENAFIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PROTECTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY;

AMIDINES; ANIMALS; BENZYLAMINES; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; DRUG SYNERGISM; HEART; HEPTANOIC ACIDS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION INJURY; MYOCARDIUM; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PIPERAZINES; PYRROLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 33646439252     PISSN: 09203206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10557-005-5203-4     Document Type: Article

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