Azithromycin therapy reduces cardiac inflammation and mitigates adverse cardiac remodeling after myocardial infarction: Potential therapeutic targets in ischemic heart disease

• Ahmed Al-Darraji,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Gill Heart Institute and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

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• Dalia Haydar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7959-2699

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• Lakshman Chelvarajan,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Gill Heart Institute and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

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• Himi Tripathi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Gill Heart Institute and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

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• Bryana Levitan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Gill Heart Institute and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

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• Erhe Gao,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation The Center for Translational Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Vincent J. Venditto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

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• John C. Gensel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8980-108X

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• David J. Feola,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

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• Ahmed Abdel-Latif

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: abdel-latif@uky.edu

  Affiliations Gill Heart Institute and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America, The Lexington VA Medical Center, Lexington, KY, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8178-7102

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