NPPB and myocardial infarction: B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP), a member of the natriuretic peptide (NPs) family that also includes A-type (ANP), C-type (CNP) and snake [4] natriuretic peptides, has been demonstrated to be a potent cardioprotective molecule in MI [1,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] and suggested to have anti-inflammatory properties.