Circulation On The Run

Dr. Carolyn Lam:               Welcome to Circulation on the Run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and its editors. I'm Dr. Carolyn Lam, associate editor from the National Heart Centre and Duke-National University of Singapore. Our feature discussion today centers on patients with acute stroke due to large vessel occlusion, and asks the question, "Does interhospital transfer prior to thrombectomy relate to delayed treatment and worse outcomes?" Well, stay tuned for more right after these summaries.                                                 Our first original paper this week tells us that cardio protection is alive, and mitochondrial cardiomyocyte calcium-activated potassium channels of the BK type may be a promising target. In this study from first author Dr. Frankenreiter, corresponding author Dr. Lukowski, from University of Tuebingen in Germany, the authors used a combination of transgenic, pharmacologic and electrophysiological approaches to show that mice with a cardio