Postconditioning attenuates cardiocyte ultrastructure injury and apoptosis by blocking mitochondrial permeability transition in rats

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 377-387

  Fang, Jun ^a,b   Wu, Liming ^b   Chen, Lianglong ^a  

^a Fujian Institute of Coronary Artery Disease

^b FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Ischaemic postconditioning; Mitochondrial permeability transition; Myocardial ischaemia; Reperfusion injury; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ATRACTYLOSIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; ISCHEMIC POSTCONDITIONING; MITOCHONDRIAL PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING, MYOCARDIAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION INJURY; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 46449127479     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.63.3.1020316     Document Type: Article

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