Post-reperfusion hydrogen gas treatment ameliorates ischemia reperfusion injury in rat livers from donors after cardiac death: a preliminary study
Akinobu Taketomi, Kengo Shibata, Kouhei Umemoto, Masato Fujiyoshi, Moto Fukai, Norio Kawamura, Nozomi Kobayashi, Shingo Shimasa, Sunao Fujiyoshi, Taichi Kimura, Takahiro Hayasaka, Takahisa Ishikawa, Tsuyoshi Shimamura
Abstract:
Background and purpose: We reported previously that hydrogen gas (H2) reduced hepatic ischemia and reperfusion injury (IRI) after prolonged cold storage (CS) of livers retrieved from heart-beating donors. The present study was designed to assess whether H2 reduced hepatic IRI during donation of a cardiac death (DCD) graft with subsequent CS.
Methods: Rat livers were harvested after 30-min cardiac arrest and stored for 4 h in University of Wisconsin solution. The graft was reperfused with oxygenated buffer, with or without H2 (H2 or NT groups, respectively), at 37° for 90 min on isolated perfused rat liver apparatus.
Results: In the NT group, liver enzyme leakage, apoptosis, necrosis, energy depletion, redox status, impaired microcirculation, and bile production were indicative of severe IRI, whereas in the H2 group these impairments were significantly suppressed. The phosphorylation of cytoplasmic MKK4 and JNK were enhanced in the NT group and suppressed in the H2 group. NFkB-p65 and c-Fos in the nucleus were unexpectedly unchanged by IRI regardless of H2 treatment, indicating the absence of inflammation in this model.
Conclusion: H2 was observed to ameliorate IRI in the DCD liver by maintaining microcirculation, mitochondrial functions, and redox status, as well as suppressing the cytoplasmic MKK4-JNK-mediated cellular death pathway.
| Publish Year |
2018 |
| Country |
Japan |
| Rank |
Positive |
| Journal |
Surgery Today |
| Primary Topic |
Liver |
| Secondary Topic | Surgery/Transplantation |
| Model |
Rat |
| Tertiary Topic | Transplantation/Graft Injury |
| Vehicle |
Water (Dissolved) |
| pH |
Neutral |
| Application |
Immersion |
| Comparison |
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