Levosimendan attenuates reperfusion injury in an isolated perfused rat heart model

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 624-628

  Ozturk, Tulun ^a   Gok, Sule ^a   Nese, Nalan ^a  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

heart; ischemia; isolated preparation; levosimendan; reperfusion injury

Indexed keywords

LEVOSIMENDAN; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART PROTECTION; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HYDRAZONES; MALE; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION INJURY; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PYRIDAZINES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 77955714479     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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