Search

Hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury has always been a difficult problem in liver transplantation and liver tumor resection. The involvement of multiple mechanisms makes it particularly complex, among which energy expenditure during ischemia and oxidative stress induced by reperfusion are the main mechanisms leading to hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury and may cause cell death and even liver failure. Silent information regulators are a class of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide-dependent deacetylases which can lead to deacetylation of transcription factors including histones and nonhistones, and they are playing an important regulatory role in cell apoptosis, inflammatory response, energy balance, and oxidative stress. There are 7 types of silent information regulators in mammals, i.e., Sirt1-Sirt7, among which Sirt1 can reduce hepatocyte stress, regulate cell metabolic pathways, and thus alleviate the degree of hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury through various signaling pathways. This article reviews the role of Sirt1-related signaling pathways in hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]