Factor Analysis for Body Mass Index Changes in Kidney Transplant Recipients.

Background: The purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing changes in the body mass index (BMI) of kidney transplant (KT) patients and provide data for the management of the BMI of patients who have undergone KT.

Method: The participants were 106 patients who underwent KT at a single center from August 2014 to June 2017. BMIs were compared and analyzed for 6 months and 24 months after KT, and the survey details were collected through medical records.

Endoscopic removal of impacted magnetic foreign bodies in the gastroesophageal junction.

Ingestion of foreign bodies is common in gastroenterology practice. Most of them are spontaneously passed through gastrointestinal tract. However, ingestion of multiple magnets can cause serious complications, because magnets attract each other and they hold the gastrointestinal wall.

All-trans retinoic acid inhibits the differentiation, maturation, and function of human monocyte-derived dendritic cells.

All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) affects on the function of antigen presenting cells with somewhat controversies. We investigated the effects of ATRA on differentiation, maturation and function of human monocyte-derived dendritic cells (DCs). Low dose (10(-14)M) or high dose (10(-6)M) of ATRA was added either when monocytes were differentiated into immature DCs (imDCs) or mature DCs (mDCs) were induced.

Short passive cooling protects rats during hepatectomy by inducing heat shock proteins and limiting the induction of pro-inflammatory cytokines.

Background: Prolonged hepatic warm ischemia during surgery remains a significant problem, particularly in the setting of liver resection and reduced remaining liver mass. The goal of the present study is to evaluate the effect of passive cooling caused by exposure to ambient conditions on hepatic injury in rats during warm ischemia followed by hepatectomy.

Methods: The left and median lobes of male rats were exposed to 75 min of ischemia under either normothermic (37 degrees C) or mildly hypothermic (34 degrees C) conditions.

Alterations in the proteome of pulmonary alveolar type II cells in the rat after hepatic ischemia-reperfusion.

Objective: Hepatic ischemia-reperfusion can be associated with acute lung injury. Alveolar epithelial type II cells (ATII) play an important role in maintaining lung homeostasis in acute lung injury.

Design: To study potentially new mechanisms of hepatic ischemia-reperfusion-induced lung injury, we examined how liver ischemia-reperfusion altered the proteome of ATII.

Mild hypothermia protects obese rats from fulminant hepatic necrosis induced by ischemia-reperfusion.

Background: Obese Zucker rats demonstrate increased susceptibility to hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury. This study evaluates the effect of mild systemic hypothermia on ischemia-induced acute fulminant necrosis during warm ischemia and reperfusion, and investigates blood metabolic profiles under normothermic and mildly hypothermic conditions.

Methods: The left and median hepatic lobes of male, obese, Zucker rats were exposed to 75 minutes of ischemia under either normothermic (36.

Warm ischemia-induced alterations in oxidative and inflammatory proteins in hepatic Kupffer cells in rats.

The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of ischemia/reperfusion injury on the proteome of Kupffer cells. Lean Zucker rats (n = 6 each group) were randomized to 75 min of warm ischemia or sham operation. After reperfusion for 8 h, Kupffer cells were isolated by enzymatic perfusion and density gradient centrifugation.

Glutamine does not protect against hepatic warm ischemia/reperfusion injury in rats.

The administration of glutamine before experimental ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) has been shown to protect intestinal, pulmonary, and myocardial tissue by inducing heat shock proteins (HSP). However, it is not known whether glutamine is protective for all organs. We therefore tested whether pretreatment with glutamine reduces injury following hepatic I/R in rats.

Mild hypothermia provides significant protection against ischemia/reperfusion injury in livers of obese and lean rats.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of anesthesia induced mild systemic hypothermia on hepatic injury in lean and obese rats during warm ischemia.

Summary Background Data: Hepatic warm ischemia during surgery remains a significant problem, particularly in organs with presumed baseline dysfunction.

Methods: The left and median lobes of male lean and obese Zucker rats were exposed to 75 minutes of ischemia under either mild hypothermic or normothermic conditions.