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WORLD JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
Volume 6, Issue 7, Pages 638-652Publisher
BAISHIDENG PUBLISHING GROUP INC
DOI: 10.4330/wjc.v6.i7.638
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Calpain; Calpain inhibition; Calcium overload; Myocardial injury; Ischemia; Reperfusion; Myocardial infarction; Remodelling
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Calpains are ubiquitous non-lysosomal Ca2+-dependent cysteine proteases also present in myocardial cytosol and mitochondria. Numerous experimental studies reveal an essential role of the calpain system in myocardial injury during ischemia, reperfusion and postischemic structural remodelling. The increasing Ca2+content and Ca2+-overload in myocardial cytosol and mitochondria during ischemia and reperfusion causes an activation of calpains. Upon activation they are able to injure the contractile apparatus and impair the energy production by cleaving structural and functional proteins of myocytes and mitochondria. Besides their causal involvement in acute myocardial dysfunction they are also involved in structural remodelling after myocardial infarction by the generation and release of proapoptotic factors from mitochondria. Calpain inhibition can prevent or attenuate myocardial injury during ischemia, reperfusion, and in later stages of myocardial infarction. (C) 2014 Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
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