Morphine and remifentanil-induced cardioprotection: its experimental and clinical outcomes

During the past few decades, a large number of animal studies demonstrated that commonly used opioids could provide cardioprotection against ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury. Opioid-induced preconditioning or postconditioning mimics ischemic preconditioning (I-Pre) or ischemic postconditioning (I-P...

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Main Authors: Jin Mo Kim, Young Ho Jang, Jun Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Society of Anesthesiologists 2011-11-01
Series:Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
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Online Access:http://ekja.org/upload/pdf/kjae-61-358.pdf