… [57] Iliac artery Cardiac ischemia Sheep Pulmonary function … ischemic preconditioning to
be beneficial in protection of the lung and the brain [56, 57, 58]. (1) RIPC by hindlimb ischemia (…

… Furthermore, remote ischemic preconditioning has been found able to improve endothelium-…
function after strenuous exercise [188]. The effect of remote ischemic preconditioning on the …

… protection of ischemic preconditioning against infarction, but their blockade does not raise
the threshold for preconditioning … ischemic preconditioning, they still do not prove its function …

… to a later episode of ischemia, in that ischemic cell death occurs more slowly … “ischemic
preconditioning.” Recently, we have shown that the retarded pace of cell death during ischemia …

… ficial effects of preconditioning include protection against necrotic and apoptotic death as …
from reperfusioninduced myocardial stunning and protection of microvasculature function [2–6]…

… cardiac function. Subsequently, we demonstrate that ischemic preconditioning under low …
the postischemic cardiac function was still improved by the ischemic preconditioning. On the …

… This phenomenon was termed ischemic preconditioning (IPC). Subsequently, this powerful
protective function of IPC was shown to occur in all species tested including mouse, rat, rabbit…

… left ventricular function. Taken together, these findings suggest that ischemic preconditioning
appears to occur in this human model with potentially relevant beneficial clinical effects. …

… impaired ventricular function or subsequent damage. Ischemic preconditioning is classified
… : the classic early preconditioning and the delayed or late preconditioning, each with its own …

… protection can be elicited by delayed ischemic PC was not known. Here, we show that delayed
IPC confers long-term protection against stroke at both the structural and functional levels…