OBJECTIVES Complement activation is considered an important mediator of myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. Although complement inhibitors are highly effective in animals, clinical trials fail to show a substantial benefit in humans. This raises questions on the role of complement activation in human myocardial I/R injury. METHODS Soluble C5b-9, i.e. terminal complement complex, an...

OBJECTIVES Intestinal ischemia/reperfusion often leads to acute lung injury and multiple organ failure. Ischemic preconditioning is protective in nature and reduces tissue injuries in animal and human models. Although hematimetric parameters are widely used as diagnostic tools, there is no report of the influence of intestinal ischemia/reperfusion and ischemic preconditioning on such parameters...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Ischemia-reperfusion is an established paradigm for the induction of neuro-oxidative stress. The present report highlights the limitations associated with the measurement of free radical exchange across the human brain after carotid endarterectomy if reperfusion hemodynamics are not taken into account. Summary of Report- Only 2 human studies have reported local changes in...

The hormone relaxin has been shown to cause coronary vasodilation and to prevent ischemia/reperfusion-induced cardiac injury in rodents. This study provides evidence that relaxin, used as an adjunctive drug to coronary reperfusion, reduces the functional, biochemical, and histopathological signs of myocardial injury in an in vivo swine model of heart ischemia/reperfusion, currently used to test...

In sustained severe ischemia, reperfusion with oxygen carriers may result in ischemia-reperfusion injuries because of the release of damaging oxygen radicals. A nanobiotechnology-based polyhemogloin-calatase-superoxide dismutase can prevent this because the oxygen carrier, polyhemoglobin, is linked to antioxidant enzymes, catalase and superoxide dismutase. However, these antioxidant enzymes com...

T lymphocytes are key contributors to the acute phase of cerebral ischemia reperfusion injury, but the relevant T cell-derived mediators of tissue injury remain unknown. Using a mouse model of transient focal brain ischemia, we report that IL-21 is highly up-regulated in the injured mouse brain after cerebral ischemia. IL-21-deficient mice have smaller infarcts, improved neurological function, ...

Oxygen free radicals induce de novo synthesis of tissue factor (TF), the initiator of the extrinsic pathway of coagulation, within the coronary vasculature during postischemic reperfusion. In the present study we wanted to assess whether TF expression might cause myocardial injury during postischemic reperfusion. Anesthetized rabbits underwent 30 min of coronary occlusion followed by 5.5 h of r...

Elevated vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) levels are required for ocular and tumor angiogenesis in animal models. Ischemic hypoxia is strongly correlated with increased VEGF expression in these systems and is considered a physiologically relevant stimulus. Because ischemic hypoxia is often followed by reperfusion and reactive oxygen intermediate (ROI) generation, we examined the potent...

Aim: to study the effect of reperfusion on organized frequency-amplitude structure ventricular fibrillation (VF) in dog heart. Materials and methods. We conducted 4 experiments 8 dogs. In each experiment, isolated heart one was perfused with blood second (supporting) dog. an artificially heart, 6 episodes 3-minute ischemia 10-minute were performed VF (1-2 ischemia-reperfusion experiment). Each ...