Publications by authors named "Antonino Bongiovani"
Basic Res Cardiol
June 2024
Article Synopsis
- Myocardial infarction (MI) causes heart muscle damage due to blocked blood flow, leading to the production of reactive oxygen species and a redox imbalance, with myoglobin playing a key role in this process.
- The study introduces a new imaging method that uses advanced techniques to examine the oxidation-reduction states of myoglobin in heart tissue after MI, revealing how myoglobin's fluorescence can indicate the state of the myocardium.
- Findings show that the spectral properties of myoglobin in infarcted heart tissue correlate with infarct size, suggesting myoglobin's redox state could be a valuable biomarker for assessing MI severity in its early stages.
