Creatine kinase MM fraction from human heart has been used in a study to investigate the importance of intraoperative and postoperative cardiac medical therapy in emergency coronary artery bypass grafting for acute myocardial infarction. Creatine kinase MM fraction from human heart has also been used in a study to investigate the circadian dependence of infarct size and left ventricular function after ST slevation myocardial infarction.