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Role of the Thyroid System in the Dynamic Complex Network of Cardioprotection
Alessandro Pingitore1, Giorgio Iervasi1, Francesca Forini1
1Clinical Physiology Institute, National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy.
Abstract:
Cardioprotection is a common goal of new therapeutic strategies in patients with coronary artery disease and/or left ventricular dysfunction. Myocardial damage following ischaemia/reperfusion injury lead to left ventricular adverse remodelling through many mechanisms arising from different cell types in different myocardial districts, namely the border and remote zone. Cardioprotection must face this complex, dynamic network of cooperating units. In this scenario, thyroid hormones can represent an effective therapeutic strategy due to the numerous actions and regulating mechanisms carried out at the level of the myocytes, interstitium and the vasculature, as well as to the activation of different pro-survival intracellular pathways involved in cardioprotection.
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