Lina Jakubauskiene, Matas Jakubauskas, Gintare Razanskiene, Bettina Leber, Jennifer Weber, Lisa Rohrhofer, Diana Ramasauskaite, Kestutis Strupas, Philipp Stiegler, Peter Schemmer
Successful uterus transplantation, a potential treatment method for women suffering from absolute uterine infertility, is negatively affected by ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI). The aim of this study is to investigate the protective effect of relaxin (RLX) or/and erythropoietin (EPO) on experimental uterus IRI. Eighty rats, randomly assigned into eight groups ( n = 10/group), were pretreated with either saline, 5 μg/kg human relaxin-2, 4000 IU/kg recombinant human erythropoietin or their combination. Ischemia was achieved by clamping the aorta and ovarian arteries for 60 min, following 120 min of reperfusion and tissue sampling...
June 27, 2022: International Journal of Molecular Sciences