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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:1572-1573
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Resveratrol or Higher Arterial Blood Pressure Protects the Spinal Cord From Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury?

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Attikon Hospital Center, Georgiou Sisini 31, Athens, 11528 Greece

(Email: toumpoul@otenet.gr).

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To the Editor:

I read with interest the article titled "Resveratrol, A Natural Red Wine Polyphenol, Reduces Ischemia-Reperfusion-Induced Spinal Cord Injury" [1]. I congratulate Kaplan and colleagues [1] on their study of resveratrol use to provide ischemic spinal cord protection. In this study the authors evaluated the effect of resveratrol (100 µg/kg) on the spinal cord in a rabbit experimental model of 30-minute infrarenal aortic cross clamping. They used 16 rabbits assigned either to a treated group (n = 8, resveratrol was infused 15 minutes before aortic occlusion) or a control group (n = 8, untreated group). All animals were sacrificed at 24 hours and groups were . . . [Full Text of this Article]