“…Similarly Yoshizumi et al [12]have demonstrated improved survival and increased tissue ATP with preconditioning in a rat liver resection model. Subsequently the IPC effect in the liver has been reproduced in several in vivo rodent models of partial and global liver ischemia [13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38]. These studies have demonstrated that liver IPC for warm ischemia resulted in decreased hepatocellular injury [17, 18], increased tissue ATP [12, 22], decreased tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) [19, 31]and IL-6 [31]release, decreased leukocyte/endothelial cell interactions [25], decreased endothelial cell injury [39], increased peripheral liver blood flow [24], increased microcirculation [40, 41], decreased hepatocellular apoptosis [27], preserved energy metabolism [21], increased hepatic intracellular oxygenation [42]and remote organ protection [23].…”