Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss 2006 Dec;99(12):1236-43
Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA.
Because of a limited capacity for cell regeneration, the cardiac tissue, when submitted to ischemic stress, may activate endogenous mechanisms of cell survival resulting in physiological conditions of adaptation to ischemia, known as myocardial stunning, ischemic preconditioning and myocardial hibernation. These conditions result from a switch in gene and protein expression, which sustains cardiac cell survival in a context of oxygen deprivation and during the stress of reperfusion. Understanding how the molecular adaptation of the cardiac myocyte during stress sustains its survival in these conditions might help to define novel mechanisms of endogenous myocardial salvage, in order to expand the conditions of maintained cellular viability and functional salvage of the ischemic myocardium. Read More