Clinical Application of Ischemic Preconditioning in the Elderly
A mild stress such as brief ischemic episodes may protect the heart from a successive and more prolonged myocardial ischemia (ischemic preconditioning). This phenomenon is considered a typical “hormetic mechanism” by which the heart is immunized from pathological insults such as myocardial ischemia....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2010-01-01
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| Series: | Dose-Response |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2203/dose-response.09-023.Abete |