ischaemic preconditioning of the human heart. - Leicester Research ...

Acknowledeements
This thesis represents work that has been performed over the period February 1998
to June 2000 within the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester,
United Kingdom.
The following people played a key role in this study, and I would like to take the
opportunity to acknowledge their contribution:
9
Professor Manuel Galifianes
- Head of Division of Cardiac Surgery of
the University of Leicester, for giving me the opportunity to work within his
department and laboratory, for the motivation, encouragement, time and
support he provided during my time there, His guidance during difficult
periods was invaluable.
e Professor Nick Standen Head of Department of Cell Physiology of the
University of Leicester, for his support and direction throughout my period in
research.
I would also like to thank the other Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeons at Glenfield
hospital, namely Mr Richard Firmin, Mr Mark Hickey, Mr Joseph Leverment, Mr
Anderjz Sosnowski and not least Mr Tom Spyt, for their donations of human atrium,
which enabled the experiments to take place.
I would also like to express my gratitude to the following collaborators for their help
during this study Dr Colin Ockleford, Dr RT Smolenski, Mr T Jefferson, Dr M
Dickens, Dr J Swanevelder, Dr D Duthie and Dr A Ahmed.
xil