L-carnitine could not improve hepatic warm ischemia-reperfusion injury despite ameliorated blood flow

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 16-22

  Yonezawa, Kei ^a,b   Tolba, René H ^a   Wetter, Axel ^a   Yamamoto, Yuzo ^c   Yamaoka, Yoshio ^b   Minor, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carnitine; Ischemia; Liver; Reperfusion

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CARNITINE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIPID PEROXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER CELL; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER LEVEL; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER PROTECTION; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 17144404573     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2004.11.016     Document Type: Article

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