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

• Main Authors: Spyros A. Mavropoulos (Author), Nayaab S. Khan (Author), Asaph C. J. Levy (Author), Bradley T. Faliks (Author), Cristina P. Sison (Author), Valentin A. Pavlov (Author), Youhua Zhang (Author), Kaie Ojamaa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...