AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Deficiency Enhances Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury but Has Minimal Effect on the Antioxidant/Antinitrative Protection of Adiponectin

Yajing Wang, Erhe Gao, Ling Tao, Wayne Bond Lau, Yuexin Yuan, Barry J. Goldstein, Bernard L. Lopez, Theodore A. Christopher, Rong Tian, Walter J. Koch,

Circulation · 2009 · 135 citations · 27 references

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Abstract

Collectively, our results demonstrated that AMPK deficiency significantly increases MI/R injury in vivo but has minimal effect on the antioxidative/antinitrative protection of adiponectin.

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