Effect of H_2 treatment in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis‐associated interstitial lung disease
Terasaki Y, Terasaki M, Kanazawa S, Kokuho N, Urushiyama H, Kajimoto Y, Kunugi S, Maruyama M, Akimoto T, Miura Y, Igarashi T, Ohsawa I, Shimizu A. · Journal of cellular and molecular medicine. 2019;23(10):7043-7053.
What kind of evidence is this?
Preclinical
Controlled preclinical study
Respiratory health
Other forms
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Methods at a glance
mouse, mice, rabbit, cell used to study respiratory health.
Preclinical study; group or assay counts reported in the full text include n=20, n=6, n=5, n=9, n=8.
10 months
Full text reports an injected or infused H₂ intervention. Detected intervention quantities or schedules: 10 months.
an injected or infused H₂ intervention — H₂ only unless the full text explicitly reports oxygen co-delivery.
H₂-related quantities reported in the intervention passages: 10 months. Values are not combined across different experimental arms.
Not applicable — no inhaled H₂ intervention was identified in the full article.
No inhaled O₂ co-delivery was identified for this non-inhalation intervention.
Control or comparison condition reported in the full article; see the linked methods for arm-specific details.
Outcomes and reported result
survival or mortality, clinical symptoms or functional scores, tumor growth or cancer markers, inflammation and cytokines, oxidative-stress and antioxidant markers, apoptosis or cell injury
Article-reported result excerpt (24 words maximum): “H_2 treatment protected against lung damage as evidenced by a reversal of the increases in serum SP‐D levels (Figure [3]K) and lung density on…” This excerpt is not a complete result summary; consult the linked full text for all positive and null findings.
The complete machine-readable article was checked for source identity, methods, intervention quantities, results, tables, funding and conflict declarations. This public record is based on the full article.
A reported association, difference or mechanism is not automatically a clinical benefit. Null findings, outcome type, study design and precision all matter.
Cautions and applicability
Preclinical evidence only; findings do not establish a treatment effect in people. No funding statement was identified in the machine-readable full article; absence is not inferred. No explicit conflict statement was identified in the machine-readable full article; absence is not inferred.
Applies to the reported animal, cell or tissue model, not directly to patients.
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No single-study GRADE certainty rating is assigned. Certainty is assessed by important outcome across a complete eligible evidence set, not by attaching a final grade to one source.
Sources and record status
PMID: 31424157 · DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.14603
A free full article is available through PubMed Central.
Official Europe PMC JATS full article and PubMed/PMC identifiers; structured full-text extraction and validation completed 8 August 2026.
2026-08-10