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M Belkin1, R D Brown, J G Wright, W W LaMorte, R W Hobson.
Abstract
Characterization of ischemia-reperfusion injury of skeletal muscle remains poorly defined. A new quantitative assay to measure ischemic skeletal muscle injury is described and validated in a rat hindlimb model. This biochemical spectrophotometric technique measures triphenyltetrazolium chloride reduction in ischemic muscle. The reduction assay demonstrated significant injury after 3 hours of ischemia (25.4 +/- 9.7 percent of control activity; p less than 0.05). More severe injury occurred after 4 or more hours (less than 3 percent of control activity; p less than 0.05). This assay is an objective and quantitative method for characterizing ischemia-reperfusion injury.Entities:
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Year: 1988 PMID: 3400818 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9610(88)80360-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Surg ISSN: 0002-9610 Impact factor: 2.565