Preoperative stress conditioning prevents paralysis after experimental aortic surgery: Increased heat shock protein content is associated with ischemic tolerance of the spinal cord

Background: All forms of surgical therapy are stressful and injurious. The problems of paralysis, renal dysfunction, and colonic ischemia associated with aortic occlusion are due to acute ischemia-reperfusion injury at the cellular level. Acute-anterior spinal cord ischemia is the most devastating o...

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