Why the study?
Does adenovirus-mediated Hsp27 overexpression improve post-ischaemic contractile dysfunction in rat hearts subjected to ischaemia/reperfusion?
Population
Perfused rat hearts and cardiomyocytes subjected to ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R)
Comparison
Adenovirus-mediated Hsp27 overexpression vs Control
Design
Preclinical
Follow-up
30-min ischaemia / 30-min reperfusion
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating in rat I/R models; leaves open translation to human cardioprotection.
Does adenovirus-mediated Hsp27 overexpression improve post-ischaemic contractile dysfunction in rat hearts subjected to ischaemia/reperfusion?
Hsp27 overexpression protects against ischaemia/reperfusion-induced cardiac dysfunction by stabilizing troponin I and T against proteolytic cleavage.
Lu et al. (2008) studied this question.
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