Research Article

Effects of Thyroid Hormone Analogue and a Leukotrienes Pathway-Blocker on Reperfusion Injury Attenuation after Heart Transplantation

Table 1

Cardiac TNF-α, IL-1β, and ICAM-1 levels (pg/mL) of the three experimental groups at the end of the experiment.

GroupTNFα (pg/mL) IL-β (pg/mL) ICAM-1 (pg/mL)

(1) Sham205.79 ± 13.45802.47 ± 48.37414.35 ± 26.56
(2) Control1217.01 ± 25.1*2392.06 ± 90.62*1512.26 ± 35.62*
(3) Control vehicle (1)1219.03 ± 23.442385.39 ± 91.551512.46 ± 33.99
(4) Control vehicle (2)1221.24 ± 25.972393.93 ± 88.731510.44 ± 35.39
(5) MK-886361.63 ± 22.59Ψ1109.8 ± 28.87Ψ655.88 ± 33.04Ψ
(6) DITPA431.24 ± 411290.7 ± 35.88684.96 ± 25.03

The data expressed as mean ± SEM ( in each group). *Versus sham group, Ψversus control vehicle (1) group, versus control vehicle (2).