Abstract:Myocardial infarction (MI) is the major cause of mortality around the world. We recently demonstrated that chick early amniotic fluid (ceAF) can effectively rescue ischemic heart injury, indicating that it has a therapeutic function in MI. However, its functional components and the underlying mechanisms remain to be clarified. Here, we demonstrated that a fraction of ceAF, peak 8 (P8), had a protective effect on acute MI. P8 significantly decreased cardiomyocyte cross-sectional areas and cardiomyocyte apoptosi… Show more
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