Nabil V Sayour, Gábor B Brenner, András Makkos, Bernadett Kiss, Csenger Kovácsházi, Tamás G Gergely, Sverre Groever Aukrust, Huimin Tian, Viktória Zenkl, Kamilla Gömöri, Tamara Szabados, Péter Bencsik, Andre Heinen, Rainer Schulz, Gary F Baxter, Coert J Zuurbier, Zoltán Vokó, Péter Ferdinandy, Zoltán Giricz
AIMS: Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) is a robust cardioprotective intervention in preclinical studies. To establish a working and efficacious RIPC protocol in our laboratories, we performed randomized, blinded in vivo studies in three study centres in rats, with various RIPC protocols. To verify that our experimental settings are in good alignment with in vivo rat studies showing cardioprotection by limb RIPC, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis. In addition, we investigated the importance of different study parameters...
January 31, 2023: Cardiovascular Research