Platelet activating factor: the good and the bad in the ischemic/reperfused heart

Obestatin affords cardioprotection to the ischemic-reperfused isolated rat heart and inhibits apoptosis in cultures of similarly stressed cardiomyocytes

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Post-ischaemic activation of kinases in the pre-conditioning-like cardioprotective effect of the platelet-activating factor

(2009) C. Penna et al.   Acta Physiologica

Growth hormone-releasing hormone promotes survival of cardiac myocytes in vitro and protects against ischaemia–reperfusion injury in rat heart

(2009) Riccarda Granata et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

Role of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3β in Cardioprotection

(2009) Magdalena Juhaszova et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

PAF exerts a direct apoptotic effect on the rat H9c2 cardiomyocytes in Ca2+-dependent manner

(2009) Dan Zhao et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

A cardioprotective role for platelet-activating factor through NOS-dependent S-nitrosylation

(2008) Peter J. Leary et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY

Biology of Platelet-activating Factor Acetylhydrolase (PAF-AH, Lipoprotein Associated Phospholipase A2)

(2008) Diana M. Stafforini   CARDIOVASCULAR DRUGS AND THERAPY