Hydrogen Gas Inhalation Treatment for Coronary Artery Lesions in a Kawasaki Disease Mouse Model
Shih WL, Yeh TM, Chen KD, Leu S, Liu SF, Huang YH, Kuo HC. · Life (Basel, Switzerland). 2024;14(7):796.
What kind of evidence is this?
Preclinical
Controlled preclinical study
Cardiovascular and circulatory health
Inhaled H₂
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Methods at a glance
mice, murine, cell, mouse used to study cardiovascular and circulatory health.
Preclinical study; group or assay counts reported in the full text include n=8, n=6, n=9.
Multiple article-specific time points; see the linked full methods.
Full text reports inhaled H₂-containing gas. Detected intervention quantities or schedules: 73%, 27%.
Inhaled molecular H₂ at 73%; oxygen co-delivery is reported.
H₂-related quantities reported in the intervention passages: 73%, 27%. Values are not combined across different experimental arms.
Not reported in the full article — an absolute H₂ flow in mL/min could not be verified.
27% O₂ reported; total flow is absent, so O₂ flow in mL/min cannot be calculated.
Placebo or matched control reported in the full article.
Outcomes and reported result
survival or mortality, clinical symptoms or functional scores, inflammation and cytokines, oxidative-stress and antioxidant markers, apoptosis or cell injury, cardiovascular measures
Article-reported result excerpt (24 words maximum): “1.18 ± 0.14, p < 0.001 on day 21) when compared with the controls, and a significant resolution of LCA Z scores after treatment…” 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. The article declares no conflicts of interest.
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: 39063551 · DOI: 10.3390/life14070796
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