Attenuated Cold Storage Injury of Rat Livers Using a Modified HTK Solution

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-56

  Bahde, Ralf ^a   Palmes, Daniel ^a   Gemsa, Oliver ^b   Minin, Evgeni ^a   Stratmann, Udo ^a   de Groot, Herbert ^b   Rauen, Ursula ^b   Spiegel, Hans Ullrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

histidine tryptophane ketoglutarate solution (HTK); liver transplantation; organ preservation

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; ALANINE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ARGININE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; HTK SOLUTION; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIVER ENZYME; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; ISOLATED LIVER; LIVER INJURY; LIVER ISCHEMIA; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BILE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLUCOSE; HEART RATE; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MANNITOL; MICROCIRCULATION; ORGAN PRESERVATION SOLUTIONS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROCAINE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; REPERFUSION INJURY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 41149091074     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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