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Record W4406914777 · doi:10.1016/j.biopha.2025.117869

AP39, a novel mitochondria-targeted hydrogen sulfide donor, promotes cutaneous wound healing in an in vivo murine model of acute frostbite injury

2025· article· en· W4406914777 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueBiomedicine & Pharmacotherapy · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHydrogen's biological and therapeutic effects
Canadian institutionsLondon Health Sciences CentreWestern University
FundersMedical Research CouncilLawson Health Research Institute
KeywordsFrostbiteHydrogen sulfideIn vivoWound healingMitochondrionMedicineChemistrySurgeryBiologyBiochemistry

Abstract

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Frostbite injury refers to cold tissue injury which typically affects the peripheral areas of the body, and is associated with limb loss and high rates of morbidity. Historically, treatment options have been limited to supportive care, leading to suboptimal outcomes for affected patients. The pathophysiology of frostbite injury has been understood in recent years to share similarity with that of cold ischemia-reperfusion injury as seen in solid organ transplantation, of which mitochondria play an important contributing role. The present study investigated whether AP39, a novel mitochondria-targeted slow-releasing hydrogen sulfide donor, applied topically in a vehicle cream at 200 nM or 1 µM could mitigate frostbite injury and promote wound healing in mice. Frostbite injury was induced continuously for 3 min on the dorsal skin of C57BL/6 mice (Mus musculus) using magnets frozen on dry ice (-80 °C). AP39, delivered via a vehicle cream, was used daily to treat frostbite injury until animals were euthanized on day 15 after induction of frostbite injury. Wound tissues were stained with hematoxylin and eosin along with immunofluorescence staining with cleaved caspase-3, CD31, KI-67, CD163, fibronectin and cytokeratin. While 200 nM AP39 improved granulation tissue maturation (p < 0.001), angiogenesis (p < 0.01) and cell proliferation (p < 0.001) compared to vehicle control, 1 µM AP39 further increased granulation tissue formation compared to other frostbite groups (p < 0.001). Thus, AP39 promoted frostbite wound healing, and therefore could be considered as a treatment option for patients with frostbite injury.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.072
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.337
Teacher spread0.314 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it