| HF | Heart failure |
| MI | Myocardial ischemia |
| ESMS | Extract of Sheng-Mai-San |
| OGD | Oxygen-glucose deprivation |
| LVEF | Left ventricular ejection fraction |
| LVFS | Left ventricular fractional shortening |
| LDH | Lactate dehydrogenase |
| CK | Creatine kinase |
| BNP | Brain natriuretic peptide |
| CnA | Calcineurin A |
| Drp1 | Dynamin-related protein 1 |
| Bcl-2 | B cell lymphoma/lewkmia-2 |
| BAX | Bcl-2 Assaciated X protein |
| Caspase-3 | Cysteinyl aspartate specific proteinase-3 |