Practical guidelines for rigor and reproducibility in preclinical and clinical studies on cardioprotection

We refer to the recent guidelines for experimental models of myocardial ischemia and infarction [279], and aim to provide now practical guidelines to ensure rigor and reproducibility in preclinical and clinical studies on cardioprotection. In line with the above guidelines [279], we define rigor as standardized state-of-the-art design, conduct and reporting of a study, which is then a prerequisite for reproducibility, i.e. replication of results by another laboratory when performing exactly the same experiment.