Mitigation of Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury and Improvement in Overall Graft Viability by Hypothermic Pulsatile Perfusion with Molecular Hydrogen Is Associated with Trx-1/HO-1 Activation in a Non-Survival Ex Vivo Swine Model of Donation-After-Circulatory-Death Kidney Preservation and Transplantation
Dugbartey GJ, England C, Ortas TS, Richard-Mohamed M, Jiang L, Shamma T, Igbokwe M, Bozaci A, Oyarzun JG, Seok D, Zainul SA, Harrow L, Freeman M, Lindo-Anu R, Ruthirakanthan A, Alfaifi A, Wang J, McLeod P, Haig A, Bonham C, Sener A. · International journal of molecular sciences. 2026;27(11):4931.
What kind of evidence is this?
Preclinical
Controlled preclinical study
Kidney and urinary health
Other forms
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Methods at a glance
pigs, tissue, cell, tissues used to study kidney and urinary health.
Preclinical study; group or assay counts reported in the full text include n=9, n=6, n=3.
45 min
Full text reports another explicitly administered H₂ intervention. Detected intervention quantities or schedules: 0.5 mM, 20 mM, 60 mM, 45 min, 2%, 0.1%, 5 min, 20 min.
another explicitly administered H₂ intervention — H₂ only unless the full text explicitly reports oxygen co-delivery.
H₂-related quantities reported in the intervention passages: 0.5 mM, 20 mM, 60 mM, 45 min, 2%, 0.1%, 5 min, 20 min. 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, inflammation and cytokines, oxidative-stress and antioxidant markers, apoptosis or cell injury, histology or tissue damage
Article-reported result excerpt (24 words maximum): “Compared to control grafts, renal grafts stored in the H_2-saturated UW solution showed significantly increased flow rates during cold storage and reperfusion along with…” This excerpt is not a complete result summary; consult the linked full text for all positive and null findings.
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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: 42278458 · DOI: 10.3390/ijms27114931
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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