Pharmacological preconditioning with vitamin C attenuates intestinal injury via the induction of heme oxygenase-1 after hemorrhagic shock in rats.

Pre-induction of heme oxygenase (HO)-1, which is regarded as an effective method of "organ preconditioning", exerts beneficial effects during hemorrhagic shock (HS). However, the available HO-1 inducers exhibit disadvantages such as toxicity or complex technical requirements. Therefore, a...

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Main Authors: Bing Zhao, Jian Fei, Ying Chen, Yi-Lin Ying, Li Ma, Xiao-Qin Song, Lu Wang, Er-Zhen Chen, En-Qiang Mao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4057195?pdf=render