Letter to the editor: "Zinc and cardioprotection: The missing link"

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 296, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Mocanu, Mihaela M ^a   Yellon, Derek M ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; ZINC; ZINC CHLORIDE; ZINC TRANSPORTER;

APOPTOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME 10; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REOXYGENATION; REPERFUSION INJURY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CELL LINE; CHLORIDES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; ONCOGENE PROTEIN V-AKT; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; REPERFUSION INJURY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZINC; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 58149484792     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00985.2008     Document Type: Letter

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