Anesthetic Preconditioning Enhances Ca2+Handling and Mechanical and Metabolic Function Elicited by Na+–Ca2+Exchange Inhibition in Isolated Hearts

Jianzhong An, Samhita S. Rhodes, Ming Tao Jiang, Zeljko J. Bosnjak, Ming Tian, David F. Stowe

Anesthesiology · 2006 · 22 citations · 16 references

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Abstract

APC plus Na+-Ca2+ exchange inhibition exerts additive protection in part by reducing systolic and diastolic Ca2+ overload, respectively, during ischemia-reperfusion. Less degradation of sarcoplasmic reticular Ca2+-cycling proteins may also contribute to cardiac protection.

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