Use of taurine as antioxidant in resuscitating livers from non-heart-beating donors by gaseous oxygen persufflation

Journal of Investigative Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-11

  Lauschke, Holger ^a   Kötting, Martina ^a   Akbar, Susanne ^a   Minor, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ischemia; Liver preservation; Organ shortage; Oxygen; Radicals; Taurine

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TAURINE; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SOLUTION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BILE; CAVA VEIN; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENZYME RELEASE; HEART ARREST; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER PRESERVATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION; RESUSCITATION; TISSUE OXYGENATION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0037234790     PISSN: 08941939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941930390153041     Document Type: Article

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