A Novel Cardioprotective Agent in Cardiac Transplantation: Metformin Activation of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Decreases Acute Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury and Chronic Rejection

The main cause of mortality after the first year from cardiac transplantation is cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), which leads to chronic rejection of the heart. To improve long-term outcomes in cardiac transplantation, treatments to prevent or diminish CAV are actively being researched. Ischemi...

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Autores principales: Chin, Jocelyn T., Troke, Joshua J., Kimura, Naoyuki, Itoh, Satoshi, Wang, Xi, Palmer, Owen P., Robbins, Robert C., Fischbein, Michael P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: YJBM 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3238328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22180679

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