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Background: Proper fluid resuscitation can relieve visceral damage and improve survival in severely burned patients. This study compared the effectiveness of resuscitation with 400mEq/L hypertonic saline (HS) and sodium lactate Ringer's solution (LR) in rats with kidney injury caused by burn trauma.Methods: Rats (Sprague-Dawley) underwent burn injury and were randomized into sham, LR, and HS groups. Samples from the kidney were assayed for water content ratio, histopathology, and oxidative stress (superoxide dismutase (SOD) and malondialdehyde (MDA)). Serum sodium, renal function (creatinine and cystatin (Cys)-C), and inflammatory response (tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, interleukin (IL)-1β, and high mobility group protein box (HMGB)-1) were also examined as serum markers.Results: Hypertonic saline resuscitation reduced the renal water content ratio and improved renal histopathology caused by severe burns. This effect was accompanied by reductions in serum creatinine and Cys-C as well as TNF-α, IL-1β, and HMGB1. Serum sodium concentration and SOD activity were increased, whereas MDA content was decreased in the kidney tissue of the HS group.Conclusions: The data indicate that 400mEq/L HS solution reduces hyponatremia and renal edema, inhibits the release of inflammatory mediators, and alleviates oxidative stress injury, thus protecting against kidney injury induced by severe burns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: A series of {001} facets dominated TiO2 nanosheets with even distributed bulk oxygen vacancies and Ti3+ were synthesized by a simple hydrothermal method at different temperatures. The oxygen vacancy and Ti3+ quantity increased with the hydrothermal temperature from 180°C to 240°C. The existed oxygen vacancies and Ti3+ significantly improve the visible-light photoactivity, which can be assigned to the enhanced visible light adsorption, ·OH generation ability and reduced photoelectrons and holes recombination rate. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The inhibition kinetics of 2-phenylethanol, 2-phenylacetaldehyde and 2-phenylacetic acid on the enzyme activity of mushroom tyrosinase have been investigated. The results showed that these aromatic compounds can lead to reversible inhibition of the enzyme; furthermore, 2-phenylacetaldehyde and 2-phenylacetic acid are uncompetitive inhibitors and 2-phenylethanol is a mixed-type inhibitor. The inhibition constants have been determined and the inhibiting ability was: 2-phenylacetaldehyde>2-phenylacetic acid>2-phenylethanol, indicating that the functional group on the benzene ring group played an important role in the inhibition of the enzyme. In addition, 2-phenylacetic acid and 2-phenylethanol were found to have effective antibacterial activities, and 2-phenylacetic acid was more effective against Escherichia coli and Ralstonia solanacearum than 2-phenylethanol, but 2-phenylacetaldehyde lacked of antibacterial activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]