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Vericiguat is administered three hours before surgery. Two weeks after receiving therapy, pigs underwent cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate the results. The MRI results suggest improvement in the myocardial infarct after vericiguat treatment. Vericiguat treatment for two weeks enhanced vascularity, inhibited pro-inflammatory cells, and decreased collagen deposition in the infarct zone of pigs. Short-term experiments investigating possible explanations have indicated that vericiguat has antiapoptotic effects on cardiomyocytes and increases levels of autophagy.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n<jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Vericiguat, an SGC activator, reduces MIRI in pigs by boosting autophagy, preventing apoptosis, and promoting angiogenesis.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0295566","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,22]],"date-time":"2023-12-22T18:26:53Z","timestamp":1703269613000},"page":"e0295566","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Vericiguat protects against cardiac damage in a pig model of ischemia\/reperfusion"],"prefix":"10.1371","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Weida","family":"Zhu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yue","family":"Ben","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yang","family":"Shen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-6823-1786","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Wenbing","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"340","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"pone.0295566.ref001","volume-title":"Global, regional, and national age\u2013sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990\u20132013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013","author":"K.M. 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