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. 2012 May 9;2012:298657. doi: 10.1155/2012/298657

Table 2.

Additives to UW solution to protect liver against ischemia/reperfusion. Nitric oxide, NO; platelet-activating factor, PAF; sinusoidal endothelial cells, SEC.

Additives to UW solution
Liver transplantation
Drug Specie Ischemic time Effect
Ruthenium red (mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter inhibitor) Rat 24 h ↓ Mitocondrial dysfunction
OP-4183 (PGI2 analogue) Rat 24 h ↓ Oxidative stress
SAM (ATP precursor) Rat 24 h ↓ Oxidative stress
Trifluoperazine (calmodulin inhibitor) Dog 24 h ↓ Microcirculatory dysturbances
Sodium nitroprusside (NO donor) Rat 24, 48 h ↓ Microcirculatory dysturbances
E5880 (PAF antagonist) Pig 8 h ↓ Microcirculatory dysturbances
FR167653 (p38 inhibitor) Rat 30 h ↓ Microcirculatory dysturbances
EGF, IGF-1, NGF-α Pig 18 h ↑ ATP
LY294002 (PI3K inhibitor) Rat 3, 7, 9, 24 h ↓ Apoptosis
IDN-1965 (caspase inhibitors) Rat 24, 30 h ↓ Apoptosis
8br-cAMP and 8br-cGMP (nucleotide analogs) Rat 24 h ↓ NFα and neutrophil accumulation,
GSNO (NO donor) Rat 48 h ↓ SEC damage
Pifithrin-alpha (p53 inhibitor) Rat 24, 48 h ↓ Apoptosis
OP-4183 (PGI2 analogue) Rat 24 h ↓ Oxidative stress
Tauroursodeoxy-cholate Rat 2 h ↓ Endoplasmic reticulum stress