01). EGFP protein expression was detected in the normal myocardium at 1 cm remote from the injection site in the EGFP + MB/US group. Similarly, HGF protein expression was detected in the ischemic myocardium at 0.5 cm Vorinostat remote from the injection site in the HGF + MB/US group. These findings indicate that the radius of gene expression was partly extended in the two plasmid + MB/US groups. The capillary density increased from 20.9 +/- A 5.3/mm(2) in control myocardial infarction dogs without treatment to 126.7 +/- A 38.2/mm(2) in the HGF + MB/US group ( < 0.01). Taken together, the present data demonstrate that direct intramyocardial injection of an angiogenic gene

and microbubbles combined with insonation can augment gene expression and angiogenesis. Consequently, this strategy

may be a useful tool for gene therapy of ischemic heart disease.”
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dorsal striatum of rats previously self-administered cocaine, while a significant reduction of the EC50 value for dopamine in the ventral striatum was found in the yoked’ cocaine group. By comparing the cocaine self-administration group with the yoked’ cocaine group, evidence for the existence of motivational mechanisms that guide adaptive changes in the A2AR and D2R and in the D2-Gi coupling differentially developed in the ventral and dorsal striatum during cocaine maintenance and its extinction has been demonstrated.”
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