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MHID-1564427PMID: 221464272011Medical Gas Research
Jan M Eckermann, Wanqiu Chen, Vikram Jadhav, Frank PK Hsu, Austin RT Colohan, Jiping Tang, et al.
Background: Neurosurgical operations cause unavoidable damage to healthy brain tissues. Direct surgical injury as well as surgically induced oxidative stress contributes to the subsequent formation of brain edema. Therefore, we tested the neuroprotective effects of hydrogen (H2) in an established surgical brain injury (SBI) model in rats.
Materials and methods: Adult male Sprague - Dawley rats (w
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MHID-9017895PMID: 208883922010Neuroscience Letters
Ying Lin, Akinori Kashio, Takashi Sakamoto, Keigo Suzukawa, Akinobu Kakigi, Tatsuya Yamasoba
It has been shown that molecular hydrogen acts as a therapeutic and preventive antioxidant by selectively reducing the hydroxyl radical, the most cytotoxic of the reactive oxygen species. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that acoustic damage in guinea pigs can be attenuated by the consumption of molecular hydrogen. Guinea pigs received normal water or hydrogen-rich water for 14 days
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MHID-7978470PMID: 198340322010Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Hideaki Oharazawa, Tsutomu Igarashi, Takashi Yokota, Hiroaki Fujii, Hisaharu Suzuki, Mitsuru Machide, et al.
PURPOSE. Retinal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury by transient
elevation of intraocular pressure (IOP) is known to induce
neuronal damage through the generation of reactive oxygen
species. Study results have indicated that molecular hydrogen
(H2) is an efficient antioxidant gas that selectively reduces the
hydroxyl radical (OH) and suppresses oxidative stress-induced
injury in several organs. This
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MHID-8852067PMID: 197896282009PLoS ONE
Kyota Fujita, Toshihiro Seike, Noriko Yutsudo, Mizuki Ohno, Hidetaka Yamada, Hiroo Yamaguchi, et al.
It has been shown that molecular hydrogen (H2) acts as a therapeutic antioxidant and suppresses brain injury by buffering the effects of oxidative stress. Chronic oxidative stress causes neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). Here, we show that drinking H2-containing water significantly reduced the loss of dopaminergic neurons in PD model mice using both acute and chronic adm
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MHID-3088793PMID: 193565982009Neuroscience Letters
Yuan Fu, Mikako Ito, Yasunori Fujita, Masafumi Ito, Masatoshi Ichihara, Akio Masuda, et al.
Molecular hydrogen serves as an antioxidant that reduces hydroxyl radicals, but
not the other reactive oxygen and nitrogen species. In the past year, molecular hydrogen
has been reported to prevent or ameliorate eight diseases in rodents and one in human
associated with oxidative stress. In Parkinson’s disease, mitochondrial dysfunction and
the associated oxidative stress are major causes of dopam
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MHID-6761448PMID: 185630582009Neuropsychopharmacology
Kazufumi Nagata, Naomi Nakashima-Kamimura, Toshio Mikami, Ikuroh Ohsawa, Shigeo Ohta
We have reported that hydrogen (H2) acts as an efficient antioxidant by gaseous rapid diffusion. When water saturated with hydrogen (hydrogen water) was placed into the stomach of a rat, hydrogen was detected at several mM level in blood. Because hydrogen gas is unsuitable for continuous consumption, we investigated using mice whether drinking hydrogen water ad libitum, instead of inhaling hydroge
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MHID-7700658PMID: 174860892007Nature Medicine
Ikuroh Ohsawa, Masahiro Ishikawa, Kumiko Takahashi, Megumi Watanabe, Kiyomi Nishimaki, Kumi Yamagata, et al.
Acute oxidative stress induced by ischemia-reperfusion or inflammation causes serious damage to tissues, and persistent oxidative stress is accepted as one of the causes of many common diseases including cancer. We show here that hydrogen (H2) has potential as an antioxidant in preventive and therapeutic applications. We induced acute oxidative stress in cultured cells by three independent methods.