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Free radicals, cardiovascular dysfunction, and protection strategies /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kukreja, Rakesh C.
Other Authors: Hess, Michael L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : R.G. Landes Co., 1994.
Series:Medical intelligence unit.
Subjects:
Free Radicals > metabolism.
Myocardial Reperfusion Injury > physiopathology.
Myocardial Reperfusion Injury > prevention & control.
Table of Contents:
  • Biochemistry of oxygen and nitrogen metabolites
  • Mechanism of oxygen radicals generation in myocardium
  • Detection of free radicals during ischemia-reperfusion
  • Oxygen radicals in myocardial injury
  • Myocardial stunning
  • Nitric oxide in ischemia-reperfusion
  • Myocardial protection by antioxidants
  • Histidine and myocardial protection
  • Ischemic preconditioning
  • Heat shock proteins and myocardial protection.