Ischemic preconditioning in the aging heart: From bench to bedside

Ageing Research Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-162

  Abete, Pasquale ^a   Cacciatore, Francesco ^a,b   Testa, Gianluca ^a,c,d   Della Morte, David ^a,e   Galizia, Gianluigi ^a,f   de Santis, Domenico ^a,c   Calabrese, Claudio ^b   Cioppa, Angelo ^a   Ferrara, Nicola ^b,d   Rengo, Franco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

^c CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

^d Dipartimento di Scienze Animali   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f Faculty of Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Ischemic preconditioning; Lifestyles

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NORADRENALIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UROCORTIN;

AGED; AGING; ANGINA PECTORIS; BODY MASS; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REVIEW; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; AGING; ANIMALS; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXERCISE THERAPY; HEART; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; PHYSICAL FITNESS;

EID: 77949267741     PISSN: 15681637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2009.07.001     Document Type: Review

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