Molecular hydrogen mitigates traumatic brain injury-induced lung injury via NLRP3 inflammasome inhibition
Liu L, Wang S, Jiang L, Wang J, Chen J, Zhang H, Wang Y. · BMC chemistry. 2025;19(1):138.
What kind of evidence is this?
Preclinical
Controlled animal and cell study
Respiratory health
Inhaled H₂
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Methods at a glance
mice, tissues, tissue, cells used to study respiratory health.
Preclinical study; group or assay counts reported in the full text include n=6, n=3, n=5.
60 min
Full text reports inhaled H₂-containing gas. Detected intervention quantities or schedules: 2%, 60 min, 45 min, 4 L/min.
Inhaled molecular H₂ at 2%; not classified as Brown’s gas without an H₂/O₂ composition.
H₂-related quantities reported in the intervention passages: 2%, 60 min, 45 min, 4 L/min. Values are not combined across different experimental arms.
80 mL/min H₂, calculated from 2% H₂ and 4000 mL/min total flow reported in the full text.
O₂ concentration and absolute O₂ flow were not both reported in the full article; no value is inferred.
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, inflammation and cytokines, oxidative-stress and antioxidant markers, apoptosis or cell injury, histology or tissue damage
Article-reported result excerpt (24 words maximum): “Similarly with arterial blood results, the concentration of molecular hydrogen in the venous blood of the increased after the onset of H₂ inhalation, peaking…” 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: 40405232 · DOI: 10.1186/s13065-025-01513-2
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Official Europe PMC JATS full article and PubMed/PMC identifiers; structured full-text extraction and validation completed 8 August 2026.
2026-08-10