Protective Effect of Hydrogen-Rich Saline on Spinal Cord Damage in Rats
Kayabaş M, Şahin L, Makav M, Alwazeer D, Aras L, Yiğit S, LeBaron TW. · Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland). 2023;16(4):527.
What kind of evidence is this?
Preclinical
Randomized blinded controlled study
Other neurological conditions
H₂-rich water
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Methods at a glance
rats, tissue, tissues, cells used to study other neurological conditions.
Preclinical study; the full text reports 3 rats.
7 days
Full text reports H₂ dissolved in drinking water plus H₂ dissolved in saline. Detected intervention quantities or schedules: 7 days, 1 minute, 2 weeks, 0.85 mM.
H₂ dissolved in drinking water plus H₂ dissolved in saline — H₂ only unless the full text explicitly reports oxygen co-delivery.
H₂-related quantities reported in the intervention passages: 7 days, 1 minute, 2 weeks, 0.85 mM. 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): “The results of the Tukey’s test showed no significant difference between the C and H groups ( p > 0.05); however, there was a…” 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: 37111284 · DOI: 10.3390/ph16040527
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