Università della Svizzera italiana

Short term effects of public smoking bans on health

Mazzonna, Fabrizio ; Salari, Paola

This paper evaluates the causal negative effect of environmental tobacco exposure on health by exploiting the time and geographical variation in public-place smoking bans implemented in Switzerland between 2007 and 2011. Using monthly data from the universe of Swiss hospitals between 2004 and 2012, we show that the incidence of acute myocardial infarction hospitalizations decreases by about...

Université de Fribourg

Induction of myocardial infarction in adult zebrafish using cryoinjury

Chablais, Fabian ; Jaźwińska, Anna

In: Journal of Visual Experiments, 2012, vol. 62, p. e3666

The mammalian heart is incapable of significant regeneration following an acute injury such as myocardial infarction. By contrast, urodele amphibians and teleost fish retain a remarkable capacity for cardiac regeneration with little or no scarring throughout life. It is not known why only some non-mammalian vertebrates can recreate a complete organ from remnant tissues. To understand the...