Cardiovascular Consequences of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Vasonatrin peptide attenuates myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury in diabetic rats and underlying mechanisms

Zhenwei Shi,* Feng Fu,* Liming Yu,* Wenjuan Xing, Feifei Su, Xiangyan Liang, Ru Tie, Lele Ji, Miaozhang Zhu, Jun Yu, and Haifeng Zhang Experiment Teaching Center, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China; Department of Physiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China; Department of Cardiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China; and Experimental Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Medical University, Xi’an, China