Archives of Medical Research
Volume 40, Issue 4 , Pages 227-234 , May 2009

Myocardial Apoptosis and Infarction after Ischemia/Reperfusion Are Attenuated by κ-Opioid Receptor Agonist

  • Fan Rong

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, National Key Discipline of Cell Biology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Zhang Peng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nephrology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Ye Ming-Xiang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Oral Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Quan-Yu Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, National Key Discipline of Cell Biology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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  • Yin Zhao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nephrology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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  • Shu-Miao Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, National Key Discipline of Cell Biology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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  • Hai-Tao Guo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, National Key Discipline of Cell Biology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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  • Hui Bi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, National Key Discipline of Cell Biology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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  • Yue-Min Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, National Key Discipline of Cell Biology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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  • Cheng Liang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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  • Chun-Hu Gu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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  • Chen Tao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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  • Qin Cui

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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  • Shi-Qiang Yu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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  • Ding-Hua Yi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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  • Jian-Ming Pei

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, National Key Discipline of Cell Biology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to: Jian-Ming Pei, Department of Physiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China

Received 18 September 2008 ,Accepted 11 February 2009.

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PII: S0188-4409(09)00075-7

doi: 10.1016/j.arcmed.2009.04.009

Archives of Medical Research
Volume 40, Issue 4 , Pages 227-234 , May 2009

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