Remote ischemic conditioning: from bench to bedside

Remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) is a therapeutic strategy for protecting organs or tissue against the detrimental effects of acute ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI). It describes an endogenous phenomenon in which the application of one or more brief cycles of non-lethal ischemia and reperfusion t...

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Main Authors: Derek John Hausenloy, Shiang Y Lim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2012.00027/full