AIMS The diabetic heart is resistant to the myocardial infarct-limiting effects of ischemic preconditioning (IPC). This may be in part due to the downregulation of the phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase-Akt pathway, an essential component of IPC protection. We hypothesized that treating the diabetic heart with the sulfonylurea, glimepiride, which has been reported to activate Akt, may lower the thr...

BACKGROUND During the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, a key epidemiological feature was disease transmission within healthcare facilities, indicating a need for infection prevention and control (IPC) training and support. METHODS IPC training was provided to frontline healthcare workers (HCW) in healthcare facilities that were not Ebola treatment units, as well as to IPC trainers and...

Glutamate receptors and calcium have been implicated as triggering factors in the induction of tolerance by ischemic preconditioning (IPC) in the brain. However, little is known about the signal transduction pathway that ensues after the IPC induction pathway. The main goals of the present study were to determine whether NMDA induces preconditioning via a calcium pathway and promotes translocat...

The aim of this study was to assess the preventive effects of ischemic preconditioning (IPC) on ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury in the sciatic nerve of the rat hind limb. This study included two experiments. For Experiment 1, 40 Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into 4 equal groups that received different IPC treatments prior to IR. Serum concentrations of aspartate aminotransfera...

The JAK-STAT pathway is activated in the early and late phases of ischemic preconditioning (IPC) in normal myocardium. The role of this pathway and the efficacy of IPC in hypertrophied hearts remain largely unknown. We hypothesized that phosphorylated STAT-3 (pSTAT-3) is necessary for effective IPC in pressure-overload hypertrophy. Male Sprague-Dawley rats 8 wk after thoracic aortic constrictio...

AIMS Acute ischaemic preconditioning (IPC) induces protection against cardiac ischaemia-reperfusion (IR) via post-translational modification of key proteins. Lysine (Lys) acetylation is an important regulator of protein function, but this type of modification has not been studied in the context of IPC. We investigated Lys acetylation in IPC and its upstream regulation by SIRT1. METHODS AND RE...

PURPOSE By acutely enhancing the arterial leg inflow, intermittent pneumatic leg compression (IPC) improves the walking ability, arterial hemodynamics, and quality of life of claudicants. We quantified the duration of acute leg inflow enhancement with IPC of the foot (IPC(foot)), calf (IPC(calf)), or both (IPC(foot+calf)) and its amplitude decay in claudicants and controls in relation to the pu...

Intrapulmonary chemoreceptors (IPC) are highly responsive respiratory chemoreceptors that innervate the lungs of birds and diapsid reptiles. IPC are stimulated by low levels of lung Pco(2), inhibited by high levels of lung Pco(2), and their vagal afferents serve as a sensory limb for reflex adjustments of breathing depth and rate. Most IPC exhibit both phasic and tonic sensitivity to CO(2), and...

To elucidate the role of intracellular Na(+) kinetics in the mechanism for ischemic preconditioning (IPC), we measured intracellular Na(+) concentration ([Na(+)](i)) using (23)Na-magnetic resonance spectroscopy in isolated rat hearts. IPC significantly delayed the initial [Na(+)](i) increase (d[Na(+)](i)/dt) compared with non-IPC control, resulting in attenuation of Na(+) accumulation (Delta[Na...