Ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI), a participant in acute kidney (AKI), can occur as series of pathological processes such inflammation. Linarin (LIN) has been widely used for different diseases. To confirm the anti-inflammatory value and relevant mechanism LIN during IRI, vivo vitro models were established. or dissolvent was given, histologic analysis, quantitative (q)RT-PCR, serum creatinine ...

Renal ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) is a major factor responsible for acute renal failure. An intermediate in heme synthesis, 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) is fundamental in aerobic energy metabolism. Heme oxygenase (HO)-1 cleaves heme to form biliverdin, carbon monoxide (CO), and iron (Fe(2+)), which is used with 5-ALA. In the present study, we investigated the role of 5-ALA in the attenua...

BACKGROUND Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is a major cause of cardiac damage following various pathological processes. Gaseous hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is protective during IRI by inducing a hypometabolic state in mice which is associated with anti-apoptotic, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. We investigated whether gaseous H2S administration is protective in cardiac IRI and whethe...

Human umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem cells (HUCB-MSCs) have been studied in several models of immune-mediated disease because of their unique immunomodulatory properties. We hypothesized that HUCB-MSCs could suppress the inflammatory response in postischemic kidneys and attenuate early renal injury. In 8- to 10-wk-old male C57BL/6 mice, bilateral ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI)...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS This study was designed to investigate a relatively optimum dose of partial enteral nutrition (PEN) which effectively attenuates intestinal barrier dysfunction initiated by ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI). METHODS In experiment 1, 60 male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were subjected to intestinal IRI and assigned to six groups according to the different proportion of EN admin...

This study sought to analyze the outcome of patients with post-treatment locally recurrent uterine carcinoma treated with Au-198 seed permanent interstitial re-irradiation (Au-198 IRI). A retrospective review of the data of 15 patients with post-treatment locally recurrent uterine carcinoma treated with Au-198 IRI between 1991 and 2009 was performed to evaluate the disease response, local contr...

Renal repair begins soon after the kidney suffers ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI); however, its molecular pathways are not fully understood. Clusterin (Clu) is a chaperone protein with cytoprotective functions in renal IRI. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of Clu in renal repair after IRI. IRI was induced in the left kidneys of wild-type (WT) C57BL/6J (B6) vs. Clu knockout (K...

AIM Activation of the master energy-regulator AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in the heart reduces the severity of ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) but the role of AMPK in renal IRI is not known. The aim of this study was to determine whether activation of AMPK by acute renal ischemia influences the severity of renal IRI. METHODS AMPK expression and activation and the severity of renal I...

We assessed spatial and seasonal changes in the diet of Oligosarcus hepsetus in order to describe the strategy developed by this species that allows their very high abundance in Lajes reservoir, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Fish samplings were carried out using gill nets, deployed during ca. 12 and 24 hours, between April 2001 and May 2002. A total of 289 individuals were examined, of which 97 showe...

In this paper, we study the existence of coupled coincidence andcoupled common fixed points for single-valued and fuzzy mappingsunder a contractive condition in metric space. Presented theoremsextend and improve the main results of Abbas and$acute{C}$iri$acute{c}$ {itshape et al.} [M. Abbas, L.$acute{C}$iri$acute{c}$, {itshape et al.}, Coupled coincidenceand common fixed point theorems for hybr...