Article
Acid sensing ion channel 1a is a key mediator of cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury
2019-12-10
Abstract excerpt
The proton-gated acid-sensing ion channel 1a (ASIC1a) is implicated in the injury response to cerebral ischemia but little is known about its role in cardiac ischemia. We provide genetic evidence that ASIC1a is involved in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) and show that pharmacological inhibition of ASIC1a yields robust cardioprotection in rodent and human models of cardiac ischemia, resulting in improv...
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- Literature Corpus work
- de9c61a3-1c85-5209-b113-cfc0ab728242
- DOI
- 10.1101/869826
