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. 1992 Mar;105(3):708–714. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1992.tb09043.x

Participation of endothelium-derived nitric oxide but not prostacyclin in the gastric mucosal hyperaemia due to acid back-diffusion.

I T Lippe 1, P Holzer 1
PMCID: PMC1908440  PMID: 1628157

Abstract

1. The possible participation of prostacyclin and nitric oxide (NO) in the gastric mucosal hyperaemic response to acid back-diffusion through a disrupted gastric mucosal barrier was examined. The experiments were carried out on anaesthetized rats in which acid back-diffusion was elicited by gastric perfusion with dilute ethanol in 0.15 M HCl and gastric mucosal blood flow (MBF) was measured by the hydrogen gas clearance technique. 2. Indomethacin (28 mumols kg-1, s.c.), an inhibitor of the formation of cyclo-oxygenase products including prostacyclin, failed to alter mean arterial blood pressure (MAP), basal MBF and the hyperaemic response to acid back-diffusion in urethane-anaesthetized rats. 3. NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME; 13 and 43 mumols kg-1, i.v.), an inhibitor of endothelium-derived NO formation, increased MAP in a dose-dependent manner. Whilst basal MBF in urethane-anaesthetized rats was not changed, the increase in MBF caused by gastric perfusion with dilute ethanol in acid was dose-dependently depressed by L-NAME. The loss of H+ ions from the gastric lumen, an indirect measure of acid back-diffusion, was significantly enhanced by 43 mumols kg-1 L-NAME. In contrast, D-NAME (13 and 43 mumols kg-1) was without effect on MAP, basal and stimulated MBF, and acid back-diffusion. 4. Unlike in urethane-anaesthetized rats, L-NAME led to a significant reduction of basal MBF in phenobarbitone-anaesthetized rats. MAP in the phenobarbitone-anaesthetized rats was significantly higher than in urethane-anaesthetized rats, and the hypertensive effect of L-NAME under phenobarbitone anaesthesia was significantly smaller than under urethane anaesthesia.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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