Table 1.

Experimental studies on delayed remote ischemic preconditioning.

Species	RIPC site	Delayed duration (h)	Site of ischemic insult	Potential mechanisms	Study
Mouse	Hindlimb	24	Heart	iNOS, NFκB	Li et al. (2004)
	Brain	24–32		iNOS	Tokuno et al. (2002)
		24		Adenosine A1	Schulte et al. (2004)
Rat	Hindlimb	12 and 48	Brain	–	Ren et al. (2008)
		24		MnSOD, xanthine oxidase	Yuan et al. (2010)
		24	Heart	MnSOD, mKATP	Wu et al. (2011)
		24	Cremaster muscle	–	Kuntscher et al. (2003b)
	Intestine	24	Heart	iNOS	Wang et al. (2001)
		24–72		iNOS, CGRP	Xiao et al. (2001)
		24		CGRP	Hu et al. (2002)
Rabbit	Intestine	24	Heart	CGRP	Tang et al. (1999)
Pig	Hindlimb	24–72	Latissimus dorsi muscle	mKATP, sKATP	Moses et al. (2005)
Human	Arm	24–48	Contralateral arm	Autonomic nervous system	Loukogeorgakis et al. (2005)