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SUBMITTER: Long M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2896465 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul-Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Long Ming M Yang Lei L Huang Genya G Liu Liping L Dong Yugang Y Du Zhimin Z Tang Anli A Hu Chenghen C Gu Ruimin R Gao Xiuren X Tang Lilong L
Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) 20100409 7-8
ST-segment elevation is the major clinical criterion for committing patients with chest pain to have emergent coronary revascularizations; however, the mechanism responsible for ST-segment elevation is unknown. In a guinea pig model of ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (AMI), local application of hirudin, a thrombin antagonist, significantly decreased AMI-induced ST-segment elevation in a dose-dependent manner. Hirudin-induced (5 antithrombin units [ATU]) decrease in ST elevation ...[more]