https://www.selleckchem.com/products/plerixafor.html Non-invasive screening for early diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD) represents a key element in the never-ending challenge to reduce cardiac death. Stress/rest electrocardiogram often lacks diagnostic accuracy, especially in asymptomatic patients, in fact the latest guidelines for the diagnosis and management of chronic coronary syndromes (CCS) stated the superiority of functional imaging techniques for the detection of subtle myocardial ischemia and the evaluation of myocardial viability (MV). Stress echocardiography is the most accessible and inexpensive imaging method for the study of CAD, either with pharmacological or with exercise provocative stress, based on visual wall-motion assessment. However, in some cases, such as small coronary lesions or microvascular angina, it loses its diagnostic power, therefore requiring a more sensitive approach. Accordingly, in the last years many authors investigated the possible additive value provided by the integration of an advanced but easy-to-obtain technique, that is speckle tracking imaging, to stress echocardiography, reaching promising results; nevertheless, its use is not included in the latest recommendations for CCS. The present review discusses the potential benefits from using a combination of speckle tracking and stress echocardiography for the early detection of myocardial ischemia and the assessment of MV and its suitability in different clinical scenarios, basing on the available evidence.Stress enhances the concentration of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in animal plasma. Increased ROS alter various physiological functions, such as development and the immune response, but excessive increases could be harmful. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that abnormally increased plasma ROS levels are associated with animal death. Injection of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans into insect larvae caused high mortality in Galleria mellonella, and the pla