MCU - fid, I think your getting caught up in the mortality figures in the studies. I am an anesthetist and have provided anesthesia for hundreds of CABG procedures. I don't think MC-1 will have or could be expected to make any statistical difference in mortality rate post CABG.
I do think that MC-1 may decrease the ischemia/reperfusion injury in tissues. MC-1 inhibits calcium influx in ischemic cardiomyocytes upon reperfusion via ATP receptor antagonism.