B Krishnadasan, B Naidu, M Rosengart, A L Farr, A Barnes, E D Verrier, M S Mulligan
OBJECTIVES: Calcineurin inhibitors reduce experimental reperfusion injury in the liver, brain, heart, kidney, and small bowel. These studies were undertaken to determine whether these agents are similarly protective against lung ischemia-reperfusion injury. METHODS: Left lungs of male rats were rendered ischemic for 90 minutes and reperfused for as long as 4 hours. Treated animals received cyclosporine A (INN: ciclosporin; 1 or 5 mg/kg) or tacrolimus (0.2 mg/kg) 6 hours before ischemia, at reperfusion, or 2 hours after reperfusion...
April 2002: Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery