Area of research
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine · Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Research interest
Research topics from publications: Sympathetic nerve innervation and metabolism in ischemic myocardium in response to remote ischemic perconditioning. Representative work: Abstract Sympathetic nerve denervation after myocardial infarction (MI) predicts risk of sudden cardiac death. Therefore, therapeutic approaches limit infarct size, improving adverse remodeling and restores sympathetic innervation have a great clinical potential. Remote ischemic perconditioning (RIPerc) could markedly attenuate MI-reperfusion (MIR) injury. In this study, we aimed to assess its effects on cardiac sympathetic innervation and metabolism. Transient myocardial ischemia is induced by ligature of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) in male Sprague–Dawley rats, and in vivo cardiac 2-[ 18 F]FDG and [ 11 C] m HED PET scans were performed at 14–15 days after ischemia. RI