The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 3 , Pages 758-764 , March 2010

Prevention of lung ischemia–reperfusion injury by short hairpin RNA–mediated caspase-3 gene silencing

Received 28 April 2009 ,Revised 6 August 2009 ,Accepted 11 September 2009.

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 Disclosures: None.

 Supported by Youth Science Foundation of Fudan University.

PII: S0022-5223(09)01250-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.09.027

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 3 , Pages 758-764 , March 2010

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