cardiovascular system
• vascular smooth muscle layer is thinner (1226+/-19.3 versus 1840+/-22.5 um2 in wild-type mice)
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• following ischemic injury and reperfusion, mice do not show a decrease in systolic and diastolic blood pressures as wild-type mice do
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muscle
• vascular smooth muscle layer is thinner (1226+/-19.3 versus 1840+/-22.5 um2 in wild-type mice)
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• following ischemic injury and reperfusion, apoptosis of myocardial cells is decreased
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homeostasis/metabolism
• following ischemic injury and reperfusion, mice do not show a decrease in systolic and diastolic blood pressures as wild-type mice do
• following ischemic injury and reperfusion, heme-oxygenase levels and activities are increased in the left ventricle
• following ischemic injury and reperfusion, infarct size is reduced compared to wild-type mice and wild-type mice treated with hemin
• following ischemic injury and reperfusion, the number of infiltrate cells is smaller
• following ischemic injury and reperfusion, apoptosis of myocardial cells is decreased
• however, treatment with ZnPP, a heme-oxygenase-1 inhibitor, results in an infarct size comparable to that in wild-type mice following ischemic injury and reperfusion
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cellular
• following ischemic injury and reperfusion, apoptosis of myocardial cells is decreased
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