Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Beneficial effect of the oxygen free radical scavenger amifostine (WR-2721) on spinal cord ischemia/reperfusion injury in rabbits. | Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery BioMed Central Open Access Research article Beneficial effect of the oxygen free radical scavenger amifostine WR-2721 on spinal cord ischemia reperfusion injury in rabbits Fany Chronidoutx Efstratios Apostolakistx loannis Papapostolou2 Konstantinos Grintzalis2 Christos D Georgiou42 Efstratios N Koletsis tx Menelaos Karanikolas3 Panagiotis Papathanasopoulos44 and Dimitrios Dougenistx Address xCardiothoracic Surgery Department Medical School University of Patras Patras Greece 2Biology Department University of Patras Patras Greece 3Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine School of Medicine University of Patras Greece and 4Neurology Department University of Patras Patras Greece Email Fany Chronidou - fanvaste@ Efstratios Apostolakis - stratisapostolakis@ loannis Papapostolou - Konstantinos Grintzalis - ekoletsis@ Christos D Georgiou - Efstratios N Koletsis - ekoletsis@ Menelaos Karanikolas - kmenelaos@ Panagiotis Papathanasopoulos - ekoletsis@ Dimitrios Dougenis - ddougenis@ Corresponding author fEqual contributors Published 17 September 2009 Received 2 June 2009 Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2009 4 50 doi l749-8090-4-50 Accepted 17 September 2009 This article is available from http content 4 1 50 2009 Chronidou et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Paraplegia is the most devastating complication of thoracic or thoraco-abdominal aortic surgery. During these operations an ischemia-reperfusion process is inevitable and the produced radical oxygen species cause severe oxidative stress for the
