“…Due to its property as a safe, powerful antioxidant, ALA is widely used and well tolerated in the treatment of diabetic polyneuropathy (Coleman et al, 2001;Ziegler et al, 2006), atherosclerosis (Xu et al, 2012), Alzheimer's disease (Maczurek et al, 2008), acute Lung Injury (Lin et al, 2013). In the cardiovascular area, ALA attenuates cardiac dysfunction by reducing cardiomyocytes necrosis, apoptosis and inflammation after MI/R (Deng et al, 2013).…”