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Hydrogen Attenuates Thyroid Hormone-Induced Cardiac Hypertrophy in Rats by regulating angiotensin II type 1 receptor and NADPH oxidase 2 mediated oxidative stress.

Hongxiao Yang, Juncai Bai, Chengchuang Zhan, Shuang Liu, Yunan Gao, Lihua Zhong, Yajing Lv, Jing Chi, Jiaren Liu, Xinrui Yang, Wei Yang · European journal of pharmacology · 2022

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Primary topic Cardiovascular Health
Evidence type Preclinical animal evidence
Publication type Animal study
Hydrogen method Other or not reported

H2HUBB TAKEAWAY

In rats, hydrogen treatment also reduced the levothyroxine-induced increase in cardiac malondialdehyde, 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine and serum hydrogen peroxide levels and upregulated superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase activity. However, hydrogen had no significant effect on levothyroxine -induced serum troponin I and serum thyroid hormone changes. These preclinical findings add evidence supporting molecular hydrogen's therapeutic potential within the outcomes and biological pathways measured in this model.

What Effects Did Molecular Hydrogen Have?

In rats, hydrogen treatment also reduced the levothyroxine-induced increase in cardiac malondialdehyde, 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine and serum hydrogen peroxide levels and upregulated superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase activity. Hydrogen is a good antioxidant. hydrogen inhalation ameliorated the levothyroxine-induced metabolic increase and cardiac hypertrophy in rats. Serum brain natriuretic peptide expression was also attenuated by hydrogen treatment. also reduced the levothyroxine-induced increase in cardiac malondialdehyde, 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine and serum hydrogen peroxide levels and upregulated superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase activity. The authors concluded that in conclusion, the present study revealed a protective effect of hydrogen on levothyroxine -induced cardiac hypertrophy by regulating angiotensin II type 1 receptors and NOX2-mediated oxidative stress in rats. These results are preclinical and suggest molecular hydrogen's therapeutic potential in the condition studied.

What the Findings Mean

H2HUBB reviewed how molecular hydrogen affected the outcomes measured in rats. Hydrogen treatment also reduced the levothyroxine-induced increase in cardiac malondialdehyde, 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine and serum hydrogen peroxide levels and upregulated superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase activity.

What the Researchers Studied

The researchers studied rats. The study used a preclinical animal experiment.

Why These Findings Matter

These preclinical findings add evidence supporting molecular hydrogen's therapeutic potential within the outcomes and biological pathways measured in this model.

How Strong Is This Evidence?

This is preclinical animal evidence from a preclinical animal experiment. It is most informative for the disease model, mechanisms, biomarkers, and outcomes directly measured in the study.

Technical Study Details

H2HUBB classifies this publication as animal study with preclinical animal evidence. The research population or model was rats. The study used a preclinical animal experiment.

Limitations and Safety

No separate limitations or safety findings were identified in the current-study source text available to H2HUBB. This was a preclinical rat study of molecular hydrogen. Oxidative-stress and peroxide-related terminology describes the measured pathway rather than the administered intervention, and the findings cannot be assumed to establish human effectiveness.

Original Study and H2HUBB Research Context

H2HUBB presents this source-grounded research record as one contribution to the broader molecular-hydrogen evidence base.