The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that anesthesia alone or in combination with high F(I)(O)2 alters expression of the myocardial calcium cycling proteins, sarcoplasmic endoreticular calcium adenosine triphosphatase subtype 2a (SERCA2a), and the sarcolemmal sodium-calcium exchanger (NCX).
Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA. pmheerd@mail.med.cornell.edu