Pharmacological cardioprotection in the acute myocardial infarction: potential of β-blockers and melatonin as forgotten cardioprotective agents.
Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Department of Cardiology, Tenerife, Spain; Instituto Universitario de Tecnología Biomédicas, Tenerife, Spain. Electronic address: adrvdg@hotmail.com.
Alberto
A
Dominguez-Rodriguez
Instituto Universitario de Tecnología Biomédicas, Tenerife, Spain; Universidad de La Laguna, Departamento de Fisiología, Tenerife, Spain.
Pedro
P
Abreu-Gonzalez
D006801:Humans; D057775:Ischemic Postconditioning; D019157:Ischemic Preconditioning, Myocardial; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000628:therapy*; D015428:Myocardial Reperfusion Injury / Q000628:therapy*; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy
Acute myocardial infarction; Cardioprotection; Melatonin; Myocardial reperfusion injury; β-blockers