Research Article

Hyperglycemia-Induced Oxidative Stress Abrogates Remifentanil Preconditioning-Mediated Cardioprotection in Diabetic Rats by Impairing Caveolin-3-Modulated PI3K/Akt and JAK2/STAT3 Signaling

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N-Acetylcysteine (NAC) treatment enabled RPC to attenuate cardiomyocyte apoptosis in diabetic rats. Streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats with or without NAC treatment were subjected to sham operation, myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (I/R), or remifentanil preconditioning (RPC). Representative apoptotic cells were labeled with arrows in the images. All the results are expressed as , . Difference was determined by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by Tukey’s test. and vs. the I/R group; vs. the I/R+NAC group.