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Transcatheter atrioventricular (AV) junction ablation with radiofrequency energy was performed in five patients with AV nodal reentrant tachycardia. Disappearance of ventriculoa-trial condcution in all patients was showed and no dual pathway was observed in four patients, in whom three patients occurred first degree AV block after ablation. No tachycardia was showed in all patients in the electrophysiology test and in follow-up of 1. 5-12. 5 months. The results sug-gested that the application of radiofrequency energy may be a suitable and safe therapeutic mothed for modification of AV nodal conduction in patients with AV nodal reentrant tachycardia.
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AIM: To investigate affection of the novel Ginko biloba extract GBE50 on bcl-2、bcl-xL gene expression in rabbit myocardium. METHODS: Adult male New Zealand rabbits were randomly divided into 2 groups. GBE50 group were orally administrated with 100 mg/kg GBE50 daily. Control group were only administrated vehicle 2% CMC-Na. After being raised for 4 weeks, the animals were killed and the ventricular tissue were excised. We performed reverse transcriptase polymerase (RT-PCR) to measure gene expression of bcl-2、bcl-xL. Semiquantitative analysis method based on gel electrophoresis image was adopted to compare gene expression among groups. RESULTS : The gene expression of bcl-2、bcl-xL significantly increased in GBE50 group compared with control group. CONCLUSION: The novel Ginko biloba extract GBE50 can promote expression of the antiapoptotic gene bcl-2、bcl-xL in rabbit myocardium.
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AIM: To determine the effect of intermittent hypoxia (IH) precondition on ischemic myocardium by using a rabbit model of chro nic myocardial ischemia with left anterior descending (LAD) banding. METHODS: Male, adult New Zealand white rabbits were assigned into three groups randomly. (1) normal group (N group), (2) control group (C group), (3) IH precondition group (H group). A LAD band was placed in C and H group firs t. The rabbits in H group were exposed to altitude of 5 000 m, for 6 h/day c ontin uously. According to IH precondition duration, the animals were subdivided into 7-days group (H1) and 42-days group (H2). After these experiments, the mRNA conc entrations of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), hypoxia induced factor (HIF-1?), endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) and the expression of VEGF p rotein were detected. Tissue sections were stained for alkaline phosphatase with indoxyl-tetrazolium method to detect capillary density. RESULTS: The mRNA levels of VEGF, HIF-1?, eNOS and expression V E GF protein were increased in H group significantly. Compared with C and N group, the capillary density in H group was increased significantly. CONCLUSION: IH precondition increases angiogenesis in chronic is chemic myocardium in rabbits.