Published in Cardiology on June 26, 2008
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Magnesium chloride and ruthenium red attenuate the antiallodynic effect of intrathecal gabapentin in a rat model of postoperative pain. Anesthesiology (2003) 0.88
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Selective medical treatment of infected aneurysms of the aorta in high risk patients. J Vasc Surg (2008) 0.87
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Experience with extracorporeal life support in pediatric patients after cardiac surgery. ASAIO J (2005) 0.86
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Downregulated myocardial connexin 43 and suppressed contractility in rabbits subjected to a cholesterol-enriched diet. Lab Invest (2005) 0.85
Down-regulating effect of nicotine on connexin43 gap junctions in human umbilical vein endothelial cells is attenuated by statins. Eur J Cell Biol (2004) 0.85
Abnormally low expression of connexin 37 and connexin 43 in subcutaneously transplanted cryopreserved mouse ovarian tissue. J Assist Reprod Genet (2008) 0.85
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Incidence, risk factors, and prognosis of postoperative hyperbilirubinemia after heart transplantation. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2007) 0.84
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Morphologic substrates for first-branch pulmonary arterial hypoplasia in transposition of the great arteries. Cardiology (2007) 0.81
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Deletion of the FHL2 gene attenuates the formation of atherosclerotic lesions after a cholesterol-enriched diet. Life Sci (2010) 0.81
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PRSS23 is essential for the Snail-dependent endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition during valvulogenesis in zebrafish. Cardiovasc Res (2012) 0.81
Functional characterization of atrial electrograms in a pacing-induced heart failure model of atrial fibrillation: importance of regional atrial connexin40 remodeling. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol (2013) 0.81
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Independent effects of body fat and inflammatory markers on ventricular geometry, midwall function, and atrial remodeling. Clin Cardiol (2014) 0.80
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Endothelial gap junctions are down-regulated by arsenic trioxide. Eur J Pharmacol (2007) 0.80
Continuous spinal anesthesia with sufentanil in labor analgesia can induce maternal febrile responses in puerperas. Int J Clin Exp Med (2013) 0.80
Heart disease screening of schoolchildren in Taiwan. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (2009) 0.80