UCN2 and ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction: These protective effects, together with others Ucn-2’s actions including vasorelaxation of human coronary artery (Smani et al., 2011), its positive inotropism (Smani et al., 2010) or its regulation of endocrine and renal effects (Rademaker et al., 2011), suggest that Ucn-2 is a promising and valuable therapeutic drug to mitigate cardiac dysfunction in post-STEMI patients.