Brief myocardial ischemia of less than 20 min duration, followed by reperfusion, is known to cause transient contractile dysfunction, often termed myocardial stunning. Tagged magnetic resonance imaging offers a noninvasive method that can be used to quantify this regional mechanical dysfunction in stunned myocardium. To this end, a closed-chest canine model of myocardial stunning was created by...

Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury is one of the most common cardiovascular diseases, and can lead to serious damage and dysfunction of the myocardial tissue. Previous studies have demonstrated that berberine exhibits ameliorative effects on cardiovascular disease. The present study further investigated the efficacy and potential mechanism underlying the effects of berberine on ischemia-rep...

Introduction: Myocardial ischemia due to coronary obstruction and reperfusion the opening of vessel occurring in acute stage myocardial infarction leads lethal arrhythmia sudden death humans. That is why pharmacological drug research decrease these arrhythmias have been researched intensively. In this study, effect administration pinacidil glimepride, on or reperfusion-induced was aimed be rese...

Background: Although the concept of early restoration of coronary bloodflow constitutes an important factor to reduce the injury caused by myocardial ischaemia, reperfusion in itself can aggravate the damage to myocardial tissue, a phenomenon denoted myocardial reperfusion injury. Aims: To investigate whether two different pharmacological interventions, cyclosporine A (CsA) and the novel enkeph...

Recently a potent anti-inflammatory effect of hydroalcoholic extract of the aerial parts of the sterile stems of Stachys inflata has been reported. This study examined whether hydroalcoholic extract isolated from aerial parts of non-flowering stems of Stachys inflata (standardized to contain 4.5% caffeic acid derivatives) reduce myocardial infarct size arising from coronary artery occlusion (30...

Background Microvascular obstruction (MO) is one of the most important predictors of adverse outcome after reperfusion therapy in acute myocardial infarction (MI). Myocardial hemorrhage has been described as a contributor to reperfusion injury. Due to a lack of appropriate imaging techniques, the consequences of reperfusion hemorrhage have not been studied. The purpose of this study is to inves...

OBJECT To investigate the effect of lung Ischemia-reperfusion injury on cardiac muscle. METHODS SD rats were randomly divided into the following four groups: sham operation group (TS group); experimental control group (TG group); curcumin group (TC group); dexamethasone group (TM group). After 4 h and 24 h of lung ischemia-reperfusion, the cardiac muscle was collected. We measured the concent...

BACKGROUND It is widely accepted that edema occurs early in the ischemic zone and persists in stable form for at least 1 week after myocardial ischemia/reperfusion. However, there are no longitudinal studies covering from very early (minutes) to late (1 week) reperfusion stages confirming this phenomenon. OBJECTIVES This study sought to perform a comprehensive longitudinal imaging and histolo...

AIMS Ischemic preconditioning (IPC) is a potent form of endogenous protection. However, IPC-induced cardioprotective effect is significantly blunted in insulin resistance-related diseases and the underlying mechanism is unclear. This study aimed to determine the role of glucose metabolism in IPC-reduced reperfusion injury. METHODS Normal or streptozotocin (STZ)-treated diabetic rats subjected...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that after an acute myocardial infarction, endothelin-1 release with subsequent calcium overload is a mediator of myocardial reperfusion injury, which can be inhibited, in part, by left ventricular unloading immediately before reperfusion. We recently have reported that left ventricular unloading before reperfusion reduces infarct size...