“…Molecules released during ischemia attach to cellular receptors and contribute to preconditioning response. The candidate compounds implicated in liver IPC include adenosine [17, 20, 25, 48, 49], protein kinase C (PKC) [53, 54, 55], nitric oxide (NO) [13, 17, 20, 26, 41, 42], heat shock proteins (HSPs) [29, 61], tyrosine kinases [52], mitogen-activated protein kinases [55], oxidative stress [35, 50], nuclear factor ĸB (NF-ĸB) [62, 63], and modulation of apoptosis cascade [14, 27]. However the characterizations of these candidate compounds into different processes in the preconditioning cascade such as initiating trigger, signalling pathway and end effector are not defined and the interrelationship between these processes is unknown.…”