Elevation of HO-1 Expression Mitigates Intestinal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury and Restores Tight Junction Function in a Rat Liver Transplantation Model

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Elevation of HO-1 expression protected the intestine epithelial cells from apoptosis caused by OALT. Immunohistochemical staining of intestine sections in all 5 groups at 8 h after reperfusion for analysis of apoptosis using TUNEL assay (a); the expression of cleaved caspase-3 (b); the number of apoptotic cells from TUNEL staining (c); the expression levels of cleaved caspase-3 from immunohistochemical staining (d). The results were expressed as the mean ± SD, –6/group. , , one-way ANOVA with Tukey test.

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