• 1.Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, Jiangsu Province, China;;
  • 2.Department of General Surgery, Changzhou No.2 Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou 213003, Jiangsu Province, China;
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Objective To investigate the effects of adenosine 2A receptor (A2AR) activation on oxidative stress in small-forsize liver transplantation.
Methods A rat orthotopic liver transplantation model was performed using 40% graft, 18 recipients were given intravenously saline (control group), CGS21680 (A2AR agonist, CGS21680 group) or ZM241385 (A2AR antagonist, CGS21680+ZM241385 group) randomly. Aspartate aminotransferase (AST), enzymatic antioxidants 〔superoxide dismutase (SOD); catalase (CAT); glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px)〕, non-enzymatic antioxidants 〔ascorbic acid (AA); glutathione (GSH); α-tocopherol (TOC)〕 and lipid oxidant metabolites malondialdehyde (MDA) were measured and analyzed at 6 h after reperfusion.
Results Compared with the control group and CGS21680+ZM241385 group, A2AR activation increased the activities of SOD and GSHPx (P lt;0.05), reduced the productions of AST and MDA (P lt;0.05), increased the levels of AA, GSH and TOC (P lt;0.05) in CGS21680 group. But there was no significant change in CAT activity (P gt;0.05) among 3 groups.
Conclusions A2AR activation improves the antioxidant enzyme activities, promotes the production of antioxidants, and slowes down the increase in MDA level, depresses of the increase in AST activity. A2AR activation suppresses oxidative damage and increases the antioxidant capacity which in turn minimizes their harmful effects of ischemia-reperfusion in small-for-size liver transplantation.

Citation: ZHU Jianfei ,TANG Liming,LI Dechun. Activation of Adenosine 2A Receptor Attenuating Oxidative Stress on Small-for-Size Liver Transplantation. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2010, 17(3): 243-247. doi: Copy