Hydrogen therapy may be a promising, safe and effective treatment for diabetic erectile dysfunction: a hypothesis
Jun Chen, Bin Zhang, Mingchao Li, Tao Qi, Zheng Chen, Xuejun Sun, Xiao Chen · Alternative Medicine Studies · 2011
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H2HUBB TAKEAWAY
More and more studies suggest that radical oxygen species (ROS) play an important role in the development of diabetic erectile dysfunction (ED) and antioxidants can markedly decrease the production of ROS and improve the erectile function. This publication is a scientific hypothesis or perspective about molecular hydrogen and identifies directions for further research.
What the Findings Mean
H2HUBB reviewed how inhaled hydrogen gas was evaluated in this publication and summarizes the source-grounded findings below. More and more studies suggest that radical oxygen species (ROS) play an important role in the development of diabetic erectile dysfunction (ED) and antioxidants can markedly decrease the production of ROS and improve the erectile function.
What Effects Did Molecular Hydrogen Have?
Inhalation of hydrogen gas has been proven to be an effective treatment for ischemiareperfusion injury by selectively reducing hydroxyl and peroxynitrite radicals. More and more studies suggest that radical oxygen species (ROS) play an important role in the development of diabetic erectile dysfunction (ED) and antioxidants can markedly decrease the production of ROS and improve the erectile function. There has been considerable evidence of hydrogen’s protective effect against diseases related to oxidative injury, such as the ischemia-reperfusion injury of the brain, liver and heart.
Why These Findings Matter
These findings add evidence supporting molecular hydrogen's therapeutic potential within the biological process and outcomes directly measured in this publication and contribute to the growing body of molecular-hydrogen research.
How Strong Is This Evidence?
This is review or synthesis evidence (hypothesis or perspective).
Technical Study Details
H2HUBB classifies this publication as hypothesis or perspective with review or synthesis evidence. The hydrogen delivery method was inhaled hydrogen gas.
Limitations and Safety
No separate limitations or safety findings were identified in the current-study source text available to H2HUBB.
Original Study and H2HUBB Research Context
H2HUBB presents this source-grounded research record as one contribution to the broader molecular-hydrogen evidence base. The original scholarly source is available at http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/ams/article/viewFile/2940/pdf.
What the Researchers Studied
The available source identifies this publication as hypothesis or perspective. A more specific population or model was not separately reported in the source text available to H2HUBB.