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MHID-1417416PMID: 234757672013American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Tomohiro Kawamura, Nobunao Wakabayashi, Norihisa Shigemura, Chien-Sheng Huang, Kosuke Masutani, Yugo Tanaka, et al.
Hyperoxic lung injury is a major concern in critically ill patients who receive high concentrations of oxygen to treat lung diseases. Successful abrogation of hyperoxic lung injury would have a huge impact on respiratory and critical care medicine. Hydrogen can be administered as a therapeutic medical gas. We recently demonstrated that inhaled hydrogen reduced transplant-induced lung injury and in
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MHID-5043020PMID: 236615162013European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences
M. Xiao, T. Zhu, T. Wang, F.-Q. Wen
Recent studies suggest that hydrogen has great therapeutic and prophylactic potential against organ injury caused by oxidative stress and inflammation. Here we investigated the effect of hydrogen-rich saline on airway inflammation and remodeling in a murine model of asthma.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Asthma was induced by ovalbumin (OVA) sensitization and challenge. Then mice were treated with normal
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MHID-09896642012Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Yugo Tanaka, Norihisa Shigemura, Tomohiro Kawamura, Kentaro Noda, Kumiko Isse, Donna Beer Stolz, et al.
Background—We previously demonstrated that donor treatment with inhaled hydrogen protects lung grafts from cold ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury during lung transplantation. To elucidate the mechanisms underlying hydrogen’s protective effects, we conducted a gene array analysis to identify changes in gene expression associated with hydrogen treatment.
Methods—Donor rats were exposed to mechanica
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MHID-20640112012Shock
Keliang Xie, Yonghao Yu, Yi Huang, Lina Zheng, Jipeng Li, Hongguang Chen, et al.
Acute lung injury (ALI) is still a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. Recently, our and other studies have found that hydrogen gas (H2) treatment can ameliorate the lung injury induced by sepsis, ventilator, hyperoxia, and ischemia-reperfusion. However, the molecular mechanisms by which H2 ameliorates lung injury remain unclear. In the current study, we investigat
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MHID-49572952011Medical Science Monitor
Yunhai Chuai, Luqian Zhao, Jin Ni, Ding Sun, Jianguo Cui, Bailong Li, et al.
Radiotherapy is an important modality of cancer treatment. Radiation pneumonitis is a major obstacle to increasing the radiation dose in radiotherapy, and it is important to prevent this radiation-induced complication. Recent studies show that hydrogen has a potential as an effective and safe radioprotective agent by selectively reducing hydroxyl and peroxynitrite radicals. Since most of the ioniz
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MHID-1756030PMID: 221460822011Medical Gas Research
Shigeo Ohta, Atsunori Nakao, Kinji Ohno
This report summarizes a brief description/history of the Hydrogen Research Meetings as well as key presentations/oral abstracts delivered in the most recent symposium. Additionally, we introduced 38 diseases and physiological states for which hydrogen exhibits beneficial effects.
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MHID-3863264PMID: 203516282010Shock
Keliang Xie, Yonghao Yu, Zishen Zhang, Wenbo Liu, Yuping Pei, Lize Xiong, et al.
Sepsis/multiple organ dysfunction syndrome is the leading cause of death in critically ill patients. Recently, it has been suggested that hydrogen gas (H2) exerts a therapeutic antioxidant activity by selectively reducing hydroxyl radical (&OH, the most cytotoxic reactive oxygen species). We have found that H2 inhalation significantly improved the survival rate and organ damage of septic mice with
