Abstract 13971: Early Up-regulation of Myocardial Cxcr4 Expression is Critical for Cardiac Improvement With Chemical Preconditioning in Acute Myocardial Infarction

Introduction: We have demonstrated the importance of the stromal cell-derived factor (SDF):CXCR4 axis in myocardial repair. Prolonged expression of SDF-1 to a time when cardiac myocytes and cardiac...