Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 2 , Pages 138-144 , August 2009

Both endogenous and exogenous testosterone decrease myocardial STAT3 activation and SOCS3 expression after acute ischemia and reperfusion

  • Meijing Wang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
    • ,
  • Yue Wang, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
    • ,
  • Aaron Abarbanell, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
    • ,
  • Jiangjing Tan, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
    • ,
  • Brent Weil, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
    • ,
  • Jeremy Herrmann, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
    • ,
  • Daniel R. Meldrum, MD

      Affiliations

    • Clarian Cardiovascular Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
    • Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
    • Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
    • Center for Immunobiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Daniel R. Meldrum, MD, 635 Barnhill Drive, MS 2017, Indianapolis, IN 46202.

,Accepted 10 March 2009.

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 Supported in part by NIH R01GM070628 (DRM), NIH K99/R00 HL0876077 (MW), and NIH R01HL085595 (DRM).

PII: S0039-6060(09)00259-1

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.03.035

Surgery
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