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Pharmacokinetics of Hydrogen During Hydrogen-Saturated Saline Infusion in Pigs

Shibuya M, Fujinaka M, Yonezawa M, Nishimura N, Uchinoumi H, Sunahara H, Tani K, Kobayashi E, Sano M. · Biomedicines. 2025;13(1):234.

PreclinicalOther formsPublished 2025
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Source and classification

What kind of evidence is this?

Evidence stream

Preclinical

Reported design

Controlled preclinical study

Research topic

Cardiovascular and circulatory health

Administration classification

Other forms

Study result signal

Not reported in this record.

Outcome type

Not reported in this record.

Reported in the source

Methods at a glance

Population or model

pigs, pig used to study cardiovascular and circulatory health.

Sample

Preclinical study; the article does not state one consolidated sample total, so no total is inferred.

Duration

120 min

Intervention

Full text reports an injected or infused H₂ intervention. Detected intervention quantities or schedules: 1 mL, 3 mL/kg, 120 min, 30 min, 60 min, 90 min, 500 mL, 8 weeks.

Hydrogen form

an injected or infused H₂ intervention — H₂ only unless the full text explicitly reports oxygen co-delivery.

H₂ specification

H₂-related quantities reported in the intervention passages: 1 mL, 3 mL/kg, 120 min, 30 min, 60 min, 90 min, 500 mL, 8 weeks. Values are not combined across different experimental arms.

H₂ flow

Not applicable — no inhaled H₂ intervention was identified in the full article.

O₂ delivered with H₂

No inhaled O₂ co-delivery was identified for this non-inhalation intervention.

Comparator

Control or comparison condition reported in the full article; see the linked methods for arm-specific details.

Reported, not endorsed

Outcomes and reported result

Outcomes measured

clinical symptoms or functional scores, tumor growth or cancer markers, inflammation and cytokines, apoptosis or cell injury, histology or tissue damage, metabolic laboratory measures

Reported result

Article-reported result excerpt (24 words maximum): “The analysis of the hydrogen-saturated saline showed that the color of the solution was clear and colorless, the pH was 5.6, and the sodium…” This excerpt is not a complete result summary; consult the linked full text for all positive and null findings.

Results-extraction completeness

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.

Interpretation limits

Cautions and applicability

Design and reporting cautions

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 directly to

Applies to the reported animal, cell or tissue model, not directly to patients.

Preliminary appraisal framework

Not reported in this record.

Preliminary risk-of-bias status

Not reported in this record.

Appraisal rationale

Not reported in this record.

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.

Provenance

Sources and record status

Identifiers

PMID: 39857817 · DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines13010234

Publisher access

A free full article is available through PubMed Central.

Extraction basis

Official Europe PMC JATS full article and PubMed/PMC identifiers; structured full-text extraction and validation completed 8 August 2026.

Record revision

2026-08-10