Erratum: Inhibition of nuclear factor kappa B pathway protects myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury in rats under treatment with Fufang Munziq granule (Munziq).

[This corrects the article on p. 77 in vol. 10, PMID: 29422995.

Inhibition of nuclear factor kappa B pathway protects myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury in rats under treatment with abnormal savda munziq.

Objective: Uighur medicine Fufang Munziq granule (Munziq) [corrected] shows cardioprotective effect in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) in animal models, but the molecular mechanism of this effect is not clear. The present study investigates the regulation of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappa B) pathway by Fufang Munziq granule (Munziq) in IRI rat models.

Methods: Male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into three groups: the NF-κB gene knockout group (n = 5); the NF-κB transgenic group (n = 8); and the control group (n = 5).

[Establishment of Uyghur Medicine Abnormal Savda Carrier MIRI Animal Model and its Cardiac Ultrastructural Changes].

Objective: To innovatively establish a new platform of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury (MIRI) animal model by observing abnormal savda carrier MIRI indicators, and to observe changes of myocardial ultrastructure.

Methods: According to Uyghur medical theories, an abnormal savda carrier animal model was established and confirmed using multifactor, and then MIRI models set up. Totally 36 male white SD rats were randomly divided into the normal sham-operation group, the normal operation group, the model sham-operation group, and the model operation group, 9 in each group.

Pericardiectomy: prompt surgical management of constrictive pericarditis.

Background: Constrictive pericarditis is a slow progressive fibrosis of the pericardium leading to a variety of symptoms and signs over time. The disease poses a diagnostic challenge; restrictive cardiomyopathy and other syndromes associated with right-sided pressure abnormalities share similar symptoms and clinical findings. Pericardiectomy is considered the treatment of choice for constrictive pericarditis.