Postconditioning in reperfusion injury: A status report

Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 265-279

  Zhao, Zhi Qing ^a  

^a MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart; Organ; Postconditioning; Reperfusion injury

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SENSITIVE POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; CYTOCHROME C; CYTOKINE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MITOCHONDRIAL PERMEABILITY TRANSITION PORE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN KINASE C DELTA; PROTEIN KINASE C EPSILON; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SUPEROXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; AORTA CLAMPING; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN INJURY; CELL HYPOXIA; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART PROTECTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTESTINE INJURY; ISCHEMIC POSTCONDITIONING; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; KIDNEY ISCHEMIA; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER PROTECTION; LUNG INJURY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; METABOLIC DISORDER; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MUSCLE PERFUSION; MUSCLE REPERFUSION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RENAL PROTECTION; REPERFUSION; REPERFUSION INJURY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC POSTCONDITIONING; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION INJURY; NECROSIS; REPERFUSION INJURY;

EID: 78149362183     PISSN: 09203206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10557-010-6240-1     Document Type: Review

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