Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2013, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (5): 945-950.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2013.05.027

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Heme oxygenase-1 protects against ischemia-reperfusion injury following liver transplantation

Xu Jian-ji1, Zeng Zhong2, Chen Xi-hua1   

  1. 1 Department of General Surgery, Cixi People’s Hospital, Cixi 315300, Zhejiang Province, China
    2 Organ Transplantation Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical College, Kunming 650032, Yunnan Province, China
  • Received:2012-04-01 Revised:2012-04-13 Online:2013-01-29 Published:2013-01-29
  • Contact: Chen Xi-hua, Doctor, Department of Geneal Surgery, Cixi People’s Hospital, Cixi 315300, Zhejiang Province, China zzong@medmail.com.cn
  • About author:Xu Jian-ji★, Master, Department of General Surgery, Cixi People’s Hospital, Cixi 315300, Zhejiang Province, China x1417@sina.com

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: During liver transplantation, liver ischemia-reperfusion injury induced primary poor liver graft function has been puzzled the majority of transplant experts and scholars. Heme oxygenase-1 is involved in a variety of diseases and pathological processes, and can protect the tissue and organ through its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-apoptotic and other mechanisms.
OBJECTIVE: To review the protective effect of heme oxygenase-1 against ischemia-reperfusion injury in liver graft.
METHODS: A computer-based search of PubMed database 1992-01/2009-12 and China Journal Full-Text database 2003-01/2010-12 was performed by the first author for the articles on the protective effect of heme oxygenase-1 on ischemia-reperfusion injury in liver graft. The key words were “heme oxygenase-1, ischemia-reperfusion injury, liver graft” in English and Chinese. The repetitive research and Meta-analysis were excluded, and totally retained 34 articles for review.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Heme oxygenase-1 may be the most widely distributed gene in animal body, and it had the most important protective effect. Heme oxygenase-1 and its catalytic product compose an important endogenous protection system that is involved in a variety of diseases and pathological processes, and protects the tissue and organ through its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-apoptotic and other mechanisms with an important clinical application potential. Heme oxygenase-1 has a significant protective effect on ischemia-reperfusion injury in liver graft. Heme oxygenase-1 has a broad clinical application prospect in reducing the ischemia-reperfusion injury and improving the liver graft survival rate if we know how to apply it in clinic by means of transgene, and that is the research direction in future.

Key words: organ transplantation, organ transplantation review, heme oxygenase-1, liver transplantation, ischemia-reperfusion injury, transgene, protection, provincial grants-supported paper

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