Lü Ping, Chen Daoda, Tian Yuan, Zhang Jinghui, Wu Yihua
Department of General Surgery, Xiehe Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022.
J Huazhong Univ Sci Technolog Med Sci. 2002;22(3):216-7, 227. doi: 10.1007/BF02828183.
The relationship between the hepatic ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury and the balance of nitric oxide/endothelins (NO/ET) was studied. The changes of the ratio of NO/ET and the hepatic injury were observed in a rat hepatic I/R model pretreated with several tool drugs. In the acute phase of hepatic I/R injury, the ratio of plasma NO/ET was reduced from 1.58 +/- 0.20 to 0.29 +/- 0.05 (P < 0.01) and the hepatic damage deteriorated. NO donor L-Arg and ET receptor antagonist TAK-044 could alleviate the hepatic I/R injury to some degree, whereas NO synthase inhibitor L-NAME aggravated the damage. It was concluded that the hepatic I/R injury might be related with the disturbance of the NO/ET balance. Regulation of this balance might have an effect on the I/R injury.
