Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
ischemic preconditioning
is·che·mic preconditioning
Subclass of:
Investigative Techniques; Therapeutic procedure
Definitions related to ischemic preconditioning:
  • A technique in which tissue is rendered resistant to the deleterious effects of prolonged ISCHEMIA and REPERFUSION by prior exposure to brief, repeated periods of vascular occlusion. (Am J Physiol 1995 May;268(5 Pt 2):H2063-7, Abstract)
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Process by which tissue is rendered resistant to the deleterious effects of prolonged ischemia and reperfusion by prior exposure to brief, transient period(s) of ischemia.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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