Fernando Sabia Tallo, Patricia Oliveira de Santana, Sandra Augusta Gordinho Pinto, Rildo Yamaguti Lima, Erisvaldo Amarante de Araújo, José Gustavo Padrão Tavares, Marcelo Pires-Oliveira, Lucas Antonio Duarte Nicolau, Jand Venes Rolim Medeiros, Murched Omar Taha, André Ibrahim David, Bráulio Luna-Filho, Carlos Eduardo Braga Filho, Adriano Henrique Pereira Barbosa, Célia Maria Camelo Silva, Almir Gonçalves Wanderley, Adriano Caixeta, Afonso Caricati-Neto, Francisco Sandro Menezes-Rodrigues
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the main cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and is characterized by severe and fatal arrhythmias induced by cardiac ischemia/reperfusion (CIR). However, the molecular mechanisms involved in these arrhythmias are still little understood. To investigate the cardioprotective role of the cardiac Ca2+ /cAMP/adenosine signaling pathway in AMI, L-type Ca2+ channels (LTCC) were blocked with either nifedipine (NIF) or verapamil (VER), with or without A1 -adenosine (ADO), receptors (A1 R), antagonist (DPCPX), or cAMP efflux blocker probenecid (PROB), and the incidence of ventricular arrhythmias (VA), atrioventricular block (AVB), and lethality (LET) induced by CIR in rats was evaluated...
October 16, 2023: Pharmaceuticals