Acute (but not chronic) smoking paradoxically protects the endothelium from ischemia and reperfusion: Insight into the "smoking paradox"

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 387-389

  Lisi, Monica ^a   Dragoni, Saverio ^a   Leone, Maria Cristina ^a   Münzel, Thomas ^b   Parker, John D ^c   Gori, Tommaso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ARTERY DIAMETER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW; ENDOTHELIUM; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; LETTER; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SMOKING; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVENOUS; ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RADIAL ARTERY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPERFUSION INJURY; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS; UPPER EXTREMITY; VASODILATION;

EID: 84876464331     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-013-0540-y     Document Type: Letter

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