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I would like to thank all the persons who did help me during these last two years. Without their support I would never had finished my research work.
First of all, I was very pleased to work with Profession Karl-Heinz Krause and Dr. Marisa Jaconi, under the direction of whom I could finish my thesis work. I thank them for always giving me a positive support.
I would like to thank Profession Zhang, Zhong-hui, the president of Beijing Hospital, Beijing, for permitting my on-leave work abroad for two years, to complete the M.D. program.
I also thank the dean of the Geriatric Department, Prof. Jean-Pierre Michel, who allowed me to do welcomed me in this Department and allowed me to perform some clinical consultations.
I thank Profession Denis Morel and his technician Manuel Costa for helping me to built up the rat animal model of myocardial infarction and to assist me with animal experiments;
A warm thank you also to :
Dr. Jian Li and Esther Bettiol, working with me in the laboratory and helping me with the cell culture work,
Dr Michel Dubois-Dauphin and Dr. Michael Stumm who unravel to me all the secrets of immunohistochemistry,
Dr. Pedro Trigo Trindade who performed the echocardiograms,
Dr. François Herrmann who did the statistical study,
Dr. Jean-Jecques Perrenound, with whom I did cardiology consultations at the in Geriatric Department during my first year. He was so nice to me and gave me many advice from the clinical point of view
Ms. Hélène Gfeller-Tillmann, our secretary; Mr. Olivier Plastre, lab technician and all of others persons in our laboratory for their help and for being very kind to share their experience with me.