Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor-Mediated Protection of the Rat Heart Exposed to Ischemia Reperfusion

Abstract Reperfusion injury following acute myocardial infarction is associated with significant morbidity. Activation of neuronal or non-neuronal cholinergic pathways in the heart has been shown to reduce ischemic injury, and this effect has been attributed primarily to muscarinic acetylcholine rec...

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Main Authors: Spyros A. Mavropoulos, Nayaab S. Khan, Asaph C. J. Levy, Bradley T. Faliks, Cristina P. Sison, Valentin A. Pavlov, Youhua Zhang, Kaie Ojamaa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-06-01
Series:Molecular Medicine
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.2119/molmed.2017.00091