Pyruvate prevents mucosal reperfusion injury, oxygen free-radical production, and neutrophil infiltration after rat small bowel preservation and transplantation

MeSH terms

• Animals
• Free Radicals / metabolism
• Intestinal Mucosa* / physiology
• Intestinal Mucosa* / transplantation
• Intestine, Small* / physiology
• Intestine, Small* / transplantation
• Male
• Neutrophils / pathology
• Neutrophils / physiology
• Organ Preservation*
• Pyruvates / pharmacology*
• Rats
• Rats, Sprague-Dawley
• Reperfusion
• Reperfusion Injury / prevention & control*
• Time Factors
• Transplantation, Isogeneic / pathology
• Transplantation, Isogeneic / physiology