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SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Lara SQ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5225393 | biostudies-other | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity 20161228
Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) lesions are a phenomenon that occurs in multiple pathological states and results in a series of events that end in irreparable damage that severely affects the recovery and health of patients. The principal therapeutic approaches include preconditioning, postconditioning, and remote ischemic preconditioning, which when used separately do not have a great impact on patient mortality or prognosis. Oxidative stress is known to contribute to the damage caused by I/R; howev ...[more]