Opioid Receptors and Myocardial Protection

Blockade of ATP-sensitive potassium channels prevents myocardial preconditioning in dogs.

G J Gross, John A. Auchampach · Circulation Research · 1992 · 949 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Pharmacology +16

Essential role of adenosine, adenosine A1 receptors, and ATP-sensitive K+ channels in cerebral ischemic preconditioning.

Catherine Heurteaux, Inger Lauritzen, Catherine Widmann et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1995 · 558 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +17

Ischemic preconditioning during coronary angioplasty is prevented by glibenclamide, a selective ATP-sensitive K+ channel blocker.

Fabrizio Tomai, Filippo Crea, Achille Gaspardone et al. · Circulation · 1994 · 474 citations · Full text

Medicine, Cardiology, Pharmacology +17

Coupling of ATP-sensitive K+ channels to A1 receptors by G proteins in rat ventricular myocytes

Glenn E. Kirsch, Juan Codina, Lutz Birnbaumer et al. · American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology · 1990 · 406 citations

Life Sciences, Pharmacology, Physiology +17

Morphine Mimics the Cardioprotective Effect of Ischemic Preconditioning via a Glibenclamide-Sensitive Mechanism in the Rat Heart

Jo El J. Schultz, Anna K. Hsu, Garrett J. Gross · Circulation Research · 1996 · 365 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Pharmacology +17