Kaliyamurthi Venkatachalam et al.
The Journal of biological chemistry, 284(12), 7853-7865 (2009-01-24)
Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury is characterized by the induction of oxidative stress and proinflammatory cytokine expression. Recently demonstrating that oxidative stress and TNF-alpha each stimulate interleukin (IL)-18 expression in cardiomyocytes, we hypothesized that I/R also induces IL-18 expression and thus exacerbates