Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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103960 | Legal Medicine | 2009 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
This article reviews what our colleagues have found as to how ischemic injury or cell death develop in myocardium through Ca2+-dependent protease calpain and how compensatory responses evolve through activation of intracellular signaling molecules including PKC isoforms, MAP kinase family enzymes and PI3 kinase. We also addressed how restraint or other psychological stress evokes hypertension and cardiovascular responses in signaling molecules or genes. Unexpectedly, carbon monoxide protects heart and cardiogenic cells against ischemia-resperfusion injury. When I think back, the unresolved cases of autopsies provided ideas for experimental study, which then taught us how the other cases died.
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Authors
Ken-ichi Yoshida,