Mice lacking the glutamate-cysteine ligase modifier subunit are susceptible to myocardial ischaemia-reperfusion injury

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 785-795

  Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Watanabe, Yosuke ^a   Saito, Yukio ^a   Fujioka, Daisuke ^a   Nakamura, Takamitsu ^a   Obata, Jun Ei ^a   Kitta, Yoshinobu ^a   Yano, Toshiaki ^a   Kawabata, Kenichi ^a   Watanabe, Kazuhiro ^a   Mishina, Hideto ^a   Ito, Sadahiro ^a   Kugiyama, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Glutathione; Ischaemia reperfusion injury; Mitochondria

Indexed keywords

CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; CYTOCHROME C; DIMETHYL 1 PYRROLINE N OXIDE HYDROXYL RADICAL; GAMMA GLUTAMYLCYSTEINE; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE MODIFIER SUBUNIT; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; PROTEIN CARBONYL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HYPOXIA; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REOXYGENATION; REPERFUSION INJURY;

ANIMALS; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC N-OXIDES; CYTOCHROMES C; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GLUTAMATE-CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION INJURY; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RNA, MESSENGER; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 76749112894     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: 17553245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvp342     Document Type: Article

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