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Chen AY, Ha JN, Delano FA, Schmid-Schönbein GW. Receptor cleavage and P-selectin-dependent reduction of leukocyte adhesion in the spontaneously hypertensive rat. J Leukoc Biol 2012; 92:183-94. [PMID: 22566571 DOI: 10.1189/jlb.0112010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The SHR, a genetic model for hypertension and the metabolic syndrome, has attenuated leukocyte adhesion to the postcapillary endothelium by an unknown mechanism. Based on recent evidence of elevated levels of MMPs in plasma and on microvascular endothelium of the SHR with cleavage of several receptor types, we hypothesize that the reduced leukocyte-endothelial interaction is a result of enhanced proteolytic cleavage of P-selectin on the postcapillary endothelium and PSGL-1 on leukocytes. The attenuated rolling interactions of SHR leukocytes with the endothelium were restored by chronic treatment with a broad-spectrum MMP inhibitor (CGS) for 24 weeks. The SHR MMP levels, in plasma and mesentery, as well as the systolic blood pressure, decreased significantly with treatment. In the SHR mesentery, labeling of P-selectin in the postcapillary venules by immunohistochemistry demonstrated, on average, a 31% lower extracellular P-selectin density compared with the normotensive WKY. A significantly lower extracellular PSGL-1 density on the membranes of SHR neutrophils compared with the WKY also supported our hypothesis. In vivo stimulation of the mesenteric postcapillary venules with histamine demonstrated that the SHR had an attenuated response, as measured by leukocyte rolling velocity on the endothelium. The reduced P-selectin and PSGL-1 density, on SHR postcapillary endothelium and on SHR leukocytes, respectively, was restored significantly by chronic MMP inhibition. The impaired ability of SHR leukocytes to reduce rolling velocity upon inflammatory stimulation led to fewer firmly adhered leukocytes to the endothelium as a contributor to immune suppression.
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- Angela Y Chen
- Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0412, USA.
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Huang YM, Yang CCH, Lai CJ, Kuo TBJ. The influence of autonomic interventions on the sleep-wake-related changes in gastric myoelectrical activity in rats. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2011; 23:560-e208. [PMID: 21342364 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2011.01687.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND Significant changes in autonomic activity occur at sleep-wake transitions and constitute an ideal setting for investigating the modulatory role of the autonomic nervous system on gastric myoelectrical activity (GMA). METHODS Using continuous power spectral analysis of electroencephalogram, electromyogram, and electrogastromyogram (EGMG) data from freely moving rats that had undergone chemical sympathetomy and/or truncal vagotomy, sleep-wake-related fluctuations in GMA were compared among the intervention groups. KEY RESULTS The pattern and extent of fluctuations in EGMG power across the sleep-wake states was blunted most significantly in rats undergoing both chemical sympathectomy and truncal vagotomy. The effect of these interventions also varied with respect to the transition between different sleep-wake states. The most prominent influences were observed between active waking and quiet sleep and between paradoxical sleep and quiet sleep. CONCLUSIONS & INFERENCES The sleep-wake-related fluctuations in EGMG power are a result of joint contributions from both sympathetic and vagal innervation. Vagotomy mainly resulted in a reduction in EGMG power, while the role of sympathetic innervation was unveiled by vagotomy and this was reflected most obviously in the extent of the fluctuations in EGMG power.
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- Y M Huang
- Department of Surgery, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan
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Xie YF, Jiao Q, Guo S, Wang FZ, Cao JM, Zhang ZG. Role of parasympathetic overactivity in water immersion stress-induced gastric mucosal lesion in rat. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2005; 99:2416-22. [PMID: 16051715 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00267.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Stress ulcer is clinically prevalent, but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. This study aimed to investigate the role of sympathovagal imbalance in the development of water immersion restraint stress (WRS)-induced gastric mucosal lesion. Wistar rats were subjected to either restraint stress (RS) (n = 7) or WRS (n = 7) for 5 h. Linear parameters of heart rate variability and Poincaré plot were analyzed on the basis of the surface ECGs. Gastric mucosal lesion was evaluated by gross anatomy and histology. Mean R-R intervals significantly increased (P < 0.001) in a time-dependent manner in the WRS group but slightly decreased (P < 0.001) in the RS group. Root mean square of successive differences of R-R intervals and high-frequency norm (high-frequency power normalized by the total frequency power) were significantly higher in the WRS group than the RS group (P < 0.001). Low-frequency norm and low-to-high-frequency ratio increased significantly 1 h after stress and then declined to similar levels in both groups. The Poincaré plots of R-R intervals in the WRS group shifted right-upwardly and showed dispersed patterns compared with the RS group. Gastric mucosae showed serious hemorrhage, effusion, and structural collapse in the WRS group but remained normal in the RS group. Bilateral cervical vagotomy suppressed the increase of heart rate variability and prevented the gastric mucosal lesion induced by WRS. We conclude that parasympathetic overactivity is the predominant autonomic response to WRS and is most probably the leading mechanism of WRS-induced gastric mucosal lesion in rat.
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- Yuan-Fang Xie
- Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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Matsuu M, Shichijo K, Ikeda Y, Ito M, Naito S, Okaichi K, Nakashima M, Nakayama T, Sekine I. Sympathetic Hyperfunction Causes Increased Sensitivity of the Autonomic Nervous System to Whole-Body X Irradiation. Radiat Res 2005; 163:137-43. [PMID: 15658888 DOI: 10.1667/rr3294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Although the etiology of radiation sickness is still unknown, disturbance of the autonomic nervous system is suggested to be a factor. This study was designed to compare the radiosensitivity of spontaneously hypertensive rats possessing sympathetic hyperfunction and control Wistar-Kyoto rats, and to analyze the effects of radiation on the autonomic nervous system in both strains. After a 7.5-Gy dose of whole-body X irradiation, the blood pressure decreased significantly at 8 h and 2 days in the spontaneously hypertensive rats, but not in the Wistar-Kyoto rats. Epinephrine levels in the adrenal gland of spontaneously hypertensive rats decreased at 4, 8 and 24 h, unlike the Wistar-Kyoto rats. Radiation evoked a stronger increase in norepinephrine in the jejunum and colon of spontaneously hypertensive rats than in Wistar-Kyoto rats. Acetylcholine levels in the jejunum of spontaneously hypertensive rats decreased, in contrast to the increase in Wistar-Kyoto rats within 24 h after irradiation. The survival rate of spontaneously hypertensive rats was lower than that of Wistar-Kyoto rats and weight loss, appetite loss and morphological changes in the jejunum were greater in spontaneously hypertensive rats than in Wistar-Kyoto rats after irradiation. These results indicated that X irradiation caused greater activities in autonomic nervous function and severe radiation injury in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Sympathetic hyperfunction may be associated with a higher sensitivity to radiation, including radiation injury and radiation sickness.
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- Mutsumi Matsuu
- Department of Molecular Pathology, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
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Matsuu M, Shichijo K, Nakamura Y, Ikeda Y, Naito S, Ito M, Okaichi K, Sekine I. The role of the sympathetic nervous system in radiation-induced apoptosis in jejunal crypt cells of spontaneously hypertensive rats. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2000; 41:55-65. [PMID: 10838810 DOI: 10.1269/jrr.41.55] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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To evaluate the effect of the sympathetic nervous system on radiation-induced apoptosis in jejunal crypt cells, apoptosis levels were compared in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), animals which are a genetic hyperfunction model of the sympathetic nervous system, and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY). SHR and WKY were exposed to whole body X-ray irradiation at doses from 0.5 to 2 Gy. The apoptotic index in jejunal crypt cells was significantly greater in SHR than in WKY at each time point after irradiation and at each dose. WKY and SHR were treated with reserpine to induce sympathetic dysfunction, and were subsequently exposed to irradiation. Reserpine administration to SHR or WKY resulted in a significant suppression of apoptosis. p53 accumulation was detected in the jejunum in both WKY and SHR after irradiation by Western blotting analysis. There were no significant differences in the levels of p53 accumulation in irradiated intestine between WKY and SHR. These findings suggested that hyperfunction of the sympathetic nervous system is involved in the mechanism of high susceptibility to radiation-induced apoptosis of the jejunal crypt cells.
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- M Matsuu
- Department of Molecular Pathology, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
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Shimamura K, Yamamoto K, Sekiguchi F, Sunano S. Altered beta-adrenoceptor-mediated responses in the gastric smooth muscle of hypertensive rats. J Smooth Muscle Res 2000; 36:1-12. [PMID: 10830473 DOI: 10.1540/jsmr.36.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Effects of isoproterenol on contraction and membrane potential of gastric smooth muscle were studied in stroke prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP) and normotensive Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY). Circular muscle preparation from the gastric fundus developed tonic contraction by re administration of Ca2+ to a nominally Ca2+-free solution. The contraction was inhibited by nifedipine or nicardipine. Isoproterenol induced relaxation when it was applied to the Ca2+-induced contraction. The amplitude of isoproterenol induced relaxation was concentration-dependent. Propranolol 10(-6) M abolished the relaxation induced by isoproterenol 10(-7) M. In the preparation from SHRSP, the amplitude of isoproterenol induced relaxation was smaller than that from WKY between 3 x 10(-9) and 10(-7) M. Forskolin, an adenylate cyclase activator, induced concentration-dependent relaxation. There was no difference in the relaxation induced by forskolin between preparations from WKY and SHRSP. Dibutilyl cyclic AMP, a membrane permeable analogue of cyclic AMP, also induced similar relaxation in preparations from WKY and SHRSP. Resting membrane potential of smooth muscle cell was not different between preparations from WKY and SHRSP. Isoproterenol hyperpolarized the membrane concentration-dependently. Isoproterenol-induced hyperpolarization in the preparation from SHRSP was smaller than that from WKY between 10(-8) and 10(-6) M. When the membrane was depolarized by Tyrode's solution containing 40 mM K+, isoproterenol-induced hyperpolarization was almost abolished. In this condition, the isoproterenol-induced relaxation was inhibited partly, however, there was no difference in the amplitude of relaxation between preparations from WKY and SHRSP. Therefore, isoproterenol-induced hyperpolarization contributed at least partly to the relaxation. Forskolin hyperpolarized the membrane by the same amplitude in the preparations from WKY and SHRSP. These results indicate that a decrease in hyperpolarization may contribute to the decreased relaxation by isoproterenol in the preparation from SHRSP.
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- K Shimamura
- Research Institute of Hypertension, Kinki University, Osaka-Sayama, Japan
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Paré AM, Paré WP, Kluczynski J. Negative affect and voluntary alcohol consumption in Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and Sprague-Dawley rats. Physiol Behav 1999; 67:219-25. [PMID: 10477053 DOI: 10.1016/s0031-9384(99)00054-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Based on the assumption that the Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rat strain represents an animal model for depressive behavior, the purported relationship between depression and alcohol consumption was investigated in three experiments. WKY rats consumed more alcohol than Sprague-Dawley (S-D) rats when offered a choice between a 7% alcohol solution and tap water. Subsequently, the severity of stress-induced stomach ulcers was significantly less in WKY rats that had access to alcohol. In Experiment 2, WKY and S-D rats were assigned to either an alcohol access treatment or to a water-only treatment for 27 days and subsequently observed in the open-field test (OFT) and the elevated plus-maze (EPM). Access to alcohol reduced response latency in the OFT, and increased the percent time in the open arm and the total number of arm entries in the EPM for WKY rats. In Experiment 3, the antidepressant, imipramine, reduced alcohol consumption in both strains and significantly increased percent time in the open arms of the EPM for WKY rats. These studies support the assumption that depression and alcohol consumption may be related.
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- A M Paré
- Washington College, Chestertown, MD 21620, USA.
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Suzuki H, Miura S, Mori M, Akiba Y, Nagahashi S, Zweifach BW, Ishii H, Schmid-Schönbein GW. Protective role of adrenal glucocorticoids for gastric mucosa in spontaneously hypertensive rats. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 1999; 14:376-83. [PMID: 10207789 DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1746.1999.01861.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) are a representative animal model for disturbance of the pituitary-adrenal axis, as well as disturbance of the autonomic nervous system. METHODS AND RESULTS In this study, we showed that adrenalectomy in SHR-induced spontaneous gastric ulcer formation. We further investigated how abnormal adrenal secretion is related to the attenuation of gastric ulcerogenesis, in terms of leucocyte infiltration and nitric oxide (NO) formation. Bilateral adrenalectomy, as well as a sham-operation, were carried out at 12 weeks in hypertensive SHR and Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) and observations were made three weeks later. The number of myeloperoxidase (MPO) positive cells, NADPH diaphorase histochemistry and NO synthase (NOS) activity were determined in gastric specimens. Only in adrenalectomized, but not sham-operated SHR, WKY and adrenalectomized WKY, could gastric ulcers be observed. Although the number of cells positive for MPO was significantly lower in hypertensive SHR than those in WKY, such cells were increased after adrenalectomy in SHR. In contrast, adrenalectomized WKY developed no increase in MPO-positive numbers. The number of NADPH diaphorase-positive cells increased after adrenalectomy in both strains, the extent of which was much greater in SHR than in WKY. Although NOS activity in SHR was lower than that in WKY, it was significantly increased after adrenalectomy. CONCLUSIONS Our data show that the development of a significant gastric ulceration may be associated with entrapment of activated leucocytes in the gastric mucosa, as well as with an excessive production of NO in adrenalectomized SHR. An enhanced adrenal glucocorticoid may be a key factor for protecting the gastric mucosa in SHR.
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- H Suzuki
- Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
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Furuhama K. Ecabapide, a novel gastroprokinetic agent, ameliorates gastric emptying of stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP). J Vet Med Sci 1997; 59:1153-5. [PMID: 9450247 DOI: 10.1292/jvms.59.1153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The effect of ecabapide, a novel gastroprokinetic agent, on gastric emptying was examined in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP), which are known to exhibit gastric malfunctions as a result of autonomic nervous system disorder. Ecabapide was administered orally to SHRSP in various dose-regimens. Gastric emptying was evaluated by the acetaminophen (APAP) method using semi-solid meal under the conscious conditions. Ecabapide significantly enhanced gastric emptying of SHRSP at 1 mg/kg in single administration, 0.3 and 1 mg/kg in 2-week treatment and 7.7 mg/kg in 4-week (diet) exposure. These results suggest that the effect of ecabapide is exerted without showing tachyphylaxis.
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- K Furuhama
- Tokyo Research and Development Center, Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Japan
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The pharmacology of ecabapide (DQ-2511; 3-[2-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)ethylcarbamoylmethyl]amino-N-methylbe nzamide) is reviewed. Evidence from basic studies in animal models suggests that the drug acts on peripheral mechanisms of neural control. In the stomach, ecabapide acts to suppress firing in vagal afferent nerves and thereby reduce the flow of sensory information into the dorsal vagal complex. The enhancement of the efferent discharge provoked by ecabapide was completely blocked by bilateral vagotomy, as suggested by increased firing in vagal efferent fibres, preceded by suppression of activity in the sensory limb of the putative vago-vagal reflex pathway. The mechanism of action of ecabapide in suppressing discharge in vagal afferent terminals appears to mimic that of nitric oxide by stimulating formation of cGMP and activation of an inhibitory transduction cascade in the sensory fibres. In this respect the mechanism of its pro-kinetic action differs from other promoter agents. In addition to selective actions in the stomach, evidence from electrophysiological studies of enteric neurons in the small intestine suggests that ecabapide might have actions similar to those of other substituted benzamides on synaptic transmission in the intramural nervous system of this specialized region of the digestive tract. These actions include enhanced release of acetylcholine at excitatory synapses and suppression of the release of noradrenaline at inhibitory synapses.
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- K Furuhama
- Tokyo Research and Development Center, Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, Japan
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Paré WP, Kluczynski J. Differences in the stress response of Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats from different vendors. Physiol Behav 1997; 62:643-8. [PMID: 9272677 DOI: 10.1016/s0031-9384(97)00191-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats are hyperresponsive to stress and prone to stress ulcer. However, some variability in these general findings has been reported. This variability may reflect differences in the rat stock from different WKY rat vendors. WKY rats from Taconic (WKY-T), Harlan Sprague-Dawley (WKY-H), and Charles River (WKY-CR) were observed in the open-field test (OFT) and the forced-swim test (FST), and subsequently exposed to ulcerogenic water-restraint stress. There were no differences between vendor stocks in the FST, but WKY-CR rats were significantly more immobile in the OFT as compared to WKY-T and a Wistar control group. WKY-CR and WKY-H rats revealed significantly more ulcers as compared to WKY-T and Wistar rats. The WKY inbreeding programs at Charles River and Harlan, as compared to the outbreeding practice at Taconic may contribute to these vendor differences. These data indicate that WKY rat sublines from different vendors represent an important source of variability when comparing studies of stress reactivity using WKY rats.
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- W P Paré
- V. A. Medical Center, Perry Point, MD 21902-1040, USA.
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Hatanaka S, Kawarabayashi K, Iseri M, Tsubokura K, Furuhama K, Nijima A. Comparative evaluation of DQ-2511, a novel gastroprokinetic agent, with cisapride in ameliorative action on experimentally induced delayed gastric emptying. Neurogastroenterol Motil 1996; 8:227-33. [PMID: 8878082 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.1996.tb00261.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We compared the main pharmacological effect of DQ-2511 (3-[[[2-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)- ethyl]carbamoyl]methyl]amino-N-methylbenzamide), a novel gastroprokinetic agent, with that of cisapride. Single oral administration of DQ-2511 (3-10 mg kg-1) caused similar significant improvements to delays in gastric emptying of semi-solid meals evoked by cholecystokinin-octapeptide (CCK8: 5 micrograms kg-1, i.v.) in monkeys, to that with cisapride (3 mg kg-1). A 2-week oral treatment of unilaterally vagotomized rats with DQ-2511 (1-10 mg kg-1) lessened delays in gastric emptying, whereas cisapride (0.3-10 mg kg-1) had no effect under the same experimental protocols. In anesthetized rats, bolus intravenous injection of either compound (60 micrograms kg-1) enhanced gastric motility determined by means of strain gauge force transducers. Electrophysiological investigations revealed that bolus injection of DQ-2511 (6-60 micrograms kg-1) depressed the afferent discharge rate of the ventral gastric branch of the vagus nerve, while cisapride showed no effect. These results suggest that the mechanism of ameliorative action of DQ-2511 on delayed gastric emptying may differ from that of cisapride.
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- S Hatanaka
- Exploratory Research Laboratories III, Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan
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Suematsu M, Suzuki H, Tamatani T, Iigou Y, DeLano FA, Miyasaka M, Forrest MJ, Kannagi R, Zweifach BW, Ishimura Y. Impairment of selectin-mediated leukocyte adhesion to venular endothelium in spontaneously hypertensive rats. J Clin Invest 1995; 96:2009-16. [PMID: 7560094 PMCID: PMC185839 DOI: 10.1172/jci118248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The present study was designed to elucidate whether molecular mechanisms for leukocyte adhesion to microvascular endothelium may differ between spontaneously hypertensive rats and Wistar Kyoto rats. Leukocyte rolling and adhesion were investigated while monitoring venular wall shear rates in the mesenteric microcirculation stimulated with histamine or tert-butyl hydroperoxide in the two strains. In Wistar Kyoto rats, 10 microM histamine as well as 500 microM tertbutyl hydroperoxide promoted a significant reduction of venular leukocyte rolling velocity and subsequent adhesion. These changes in leukocyte behavior were blocked by monoclonal antibodies against P-selectin (PB 1.3) and against sialyl Lewis X-like carbohydrates (2H5). However, spontaneously hypertensive rats exhibited a blunted response of the stimulus-elicited leukocyte rolling, which was associated with impairment of venular P-selectin expression as well as a decrease in the expression of sialyl Lewis X-like carbohydrates on circulating neutrophils. No significant differences were detected between the two strains not only in the surface CD11b/CD18 expression but also in the CD18-mediated adhesivity of neutrophils to intracellular adhesion molecule-1 transfectants in vitro. These results suggest that impairment of selectin-mediated leukocyte adhesion is an event responsible for disorders of inflammatory responses in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
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- M Suematsu
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0412, USA
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Shen K, Sung KL, Whittemore DE, DeLano FA, Zweifach BW, Schmid-Schönbein GW. Properties of circulating leukocytes in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Biochem Cell Biol 1995; 73:491-500. [PMID: 8703419 DOI: 10.1139/o95-054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The factors responsible for predisposition to progressive organ injury and vascular complications in arterial hypertension are uncertain. Recent evidence shows that leukocytes participate in cardiovascular conditions for which hypertension is a risk factor. Therefore, there is a need to define the properties of circulating leukocytes in hypertensives. There are about twice as many circulating leukocytes in spontaneous hypertensive rats (SHRs) compared with their normotensive controls, the Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKYs). The SHR neutrophils are viscoelastic and similar to neutrophils in WKYs but exhibit lower deformability in short-term elastic deformation. Mature SHRs have elevated levels of spontaneous pseudopod formation. Mild stimulation with N-formyl-Met-Leu-Phe or platelet-activating factor (10(-8) M) results in a significantly enhanced level of neutrophil pseudopod formation in SHRs but not in WKYs. SHRs exhibit higher levels of spontaneous superoxide formation. Alkaline phosphatase content of individual circulating neutrophils in SHRs is on average lower while plasma levels of alkaline phosphatase in the same samples are elevated in the SHRs. Spontaneous degranulation of SHR neutrophils is also detectable with myeloperoxidase measurements. Such activity of circulating leukocytes poses a significant risk for vascular cytotoxicity in the hypertensive rats.
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- K Shen
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, La Jolla 92093-0412, USA
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Hatanaka S, Kawarabayashi K, Iseri M, Tsubokura K, Furuhama K. Enhancing effect of DQ-2511 on gastric emptying of spontaneously hypertensive rats. Life Sci 1995; 56:PL377-82. [PMID: 7723581 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(95)00133-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The present study was designed to clarify the potential of DQ-2511 (3-[[[2-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)ethyl]carbamoyl]carbamoyl]methyl] amino-N-methylbenzamide: ecabapide) as a gastroprokinetic agent in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). The gastric emptying of SHR was clearly retarded relative to that of weight-matched normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats when evaluated by the acetaminophen (APAP) method with the semi-solid test meal. There was, however, no significant difference between both strains in gastric mucosal blood flow (GMBF) determined by means of a laser doppler flowmetry. A 2-week treatment of SHR with DQ-2511 (1 mg/kg, oral) stimulated gastric emptying without affecting body weight gain or indirect systolic blood pressure (SBP), whereas cisapride (3 and 10 mg/kg, oral) had no effect under the same conditions. The pharmacological characteristics of DQ-2511 as a gastroprokinetic agent are discussed on the basis of these results.
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- S Hatanaka
- Exploratory Research Laboratories III, Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
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Glavin GB, Smyth DD. Effects of the selective I1 imidazoline receptor agonist, moxonidine, on gastric secretion and gastric mucosal injury in rats. Br J Pharmacol 1995; 114:751-4. [PMID: 7773534 PMCID: PMC1510191 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1995.tb13268.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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1. Previous reports of the effects of alpha 2-adrenoceptor stimulation on gastric secretion are inconsistent because it was not clear whether the compounds were activating alpha 2-adrenoceptors and/or newly described imidazoline receptors. In the present experiments, the effects of moxonidine, an I1-imidazoline receptor agonist and antihypertensive agent, on gastric secretion and on experimental gastric mucosal injury were examined. 2. Moxonidine (0.01, 0.1 and 1.0 mg kg-1, i.p.) potently inhibited basal (non-stimulated) gastric acid secretion in conscious rats with an ED50 of 0.04 mg kg-1. Two hours following administration of the highest dose of moxonidine (1.0 mg kg-1), gastric acid output was completely suppressed. Moxonidine also significantly increased intragastric pH, at the two highest doses. 3. The alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist, clonidine (0.01, 0.1 and 1.0 mg kg-1, i.p.) decreased basal acid secretion at the lowest dose (37%) and at the highest dose (46%), while the intermediate dose did not affect gastric acid output. 4. In an ethanol-induced model of gastric mucosal injury, moxonidine decreased the length of lesions at the lowest and highest doses (0.01 and 1.0 mg kg-1) as well as the number of the lesions, at the highest dose (1.0 mg kg-1). 5. In pylorus-ligated rats, moxonidine significantly decreased acid secretion (all doses), total secretory volume (1.0 mg kg-1) as well as pepsin output (1.0 mg kg-1). 6. In comparison to clonidine, moxonidine appears to be a more potent anti-secretory and gastric-protective compound. These data indicate a potential role for imidazoline receptor agonists in the management of gastroduodenal diseases associated with hypertension. The relative contribution of the central and peripheral effects of moxonidine to these gastrointestinal actions remains to be determined.
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- G B Glavin
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Ito M, Segami T, Inaguma K, Suzuki Y. Cimetidine and omeprazole accelerate gastric ulcer healing by an increase in gastrin secretion. Eur J Pharmacol 1994; 263:253-9. [PMID: 7843262 DOI: 10.1016/0014-2999(94)90720-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Daily oral administration of cimetidine or omeprazole markedly accelerated the healing of acetic acid-induced gastric ulcers in rats with a limited food intake time. The increased gastric acid secretion induced by daily treatment with histamine affected neither the spontaneous healing of the ulcers nor the healing-promoting actions of both agents. Pretreatment of rats with ulcers with 6-hydroxydopamine significantly inhibited the increase in the antrum gastrin cells, serum gastrin levels and corpus mucosal thickness elicited by repeated administration of cimetidine or omeprazole. Pretreatment with 6-hydroxydopamine did not affect the inhibitory actions of cimetidine and omeprazole on acid secretion, but completely abolished the ulcer healing-promoting actions of both drugs. Daily intraperitoneal administration of pentagastrin accelerated ulcer healing. These results suggest that cimetidine and omeprazole mainly accelerate the healing of gastric ulcers by the trophic action of gastrin via the increase in gastrin secretion, while the inhibition of acid secretion may play a minor role in ulcer healing.
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- M Ito
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan
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Ito M, Shichijo K, Sekine I, Ozaki M. Different susceptibility of stress-induced gastric ulcer and the autonomic nervous function in the hereditary hypertensive rats. JOURNAL OF THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM 1994; 46:229-36. [PMID: 8014374 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1838(94)90040-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Susceptibility of stress-induced ulcer by restraint water immersion (RWI) was examined in Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY), spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP). Ulcer formation was slight in SHR, and very slight in SHRSP. The ulcer index and blood pressure showed a significant inverse correlation (P < 0.001). Acid secretion was lowest in SHRSP, and hypergastrinemia was present in SHRSP. Gastric motility was suppressed during RWI in SHR and SHRSP. The noradrenaline content of the gastric mucosa and muscle layer was significantly greater in these hypertensive strains, and histologically noradrenergic innervation in the mucosa was also denser in SHRSP and SHR. Choline acetyltransferase activity in the stomach was significantly lower in SHR and SHRSP than WKY (P < 0.01). These findings suggest that susceptibility of stress-induced ulcer is inversely correlated with systemic blood pressure and that the alteration of autonomic nervous function contributes to inhibition of stress ulcers by suppressing acid secretion and motility in the hereditary hypertensive rats.
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- M Ito
- Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan
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Sugatani J, Miwa M, Fujimura K, Saito K. Modulation by drugs acting on the autonomic nervous system of platelet-activating factor in the stomach of rats. Biochem Pharmacol 1993; 46:37-45. [PMID: 8347135 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(93)90345-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Platelet-activating factor (PAF), an ether linked choline glycerophospholipid, is a potent initiator of diverse physiological and pathological processes. We have reported that gastric endogenous PAF levels were reduced and the contents of each of its molecular species changed during water-immersion stress in rats (Sugatani J et al., FASEB J 3: 65-70, 1989 and Sugatani J et al., Lipids 26: 1347-1353, 1991). In this study, we determined the effects of autonomic drugs on the level of gastric PAF, its molecular heterogeneity and formation of gastric erosions in unstressed rats and those subjected to water-immersion stress. Atropine, an anticholinergic drug, suppressed both the stress-induced changes and development of gastric lesions. 6-Hydroxydopamine-induced sympathectomy induced a small decrease in the gastric PAF levels and the addition of stress further decreased the PAF levels and development of gastric lesions. Carbamylcholine induced a transient decrease in the gastric PAF level of normal rats, which was not associated with gastric erosion formation. In contrast, the endogenous gastroprotective factor dopamine evoked transient dose- and time-dependent increases in the gastric PAF levels. These observations indicate that cholinergic muscarinic-receptor activation in rats led to decreases in gastric PAF levels and a prolonged and marked decrease in its level was associated with the development of gastric lesions, and that dopamine increases gastric PAF levels. Gastric endogenous PAF levels are closely associated with the autonomic nervous system and should be considered further in investigations of gastric function.
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- J Sugatani
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan
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Hashiguchi J, Ito M, Sekine I. The effect of the autonomic nervous system on cell proliferation of the gastric mucosa in stress ulcer formation. JOURNAL OF THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM 1993; 43:179-87. [PMID: 8326098 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1838(93)90354-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The role of the autonomic nervous system in cell proliferation of the gastric mucosa during restraint water immersion stress was investigated utilizing the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) and its progenitor, the Wistar-Kyoto rat (WKY). Three hours of water-immersion restraint induced gastric lesions more frequently in WKY than in SHR, although there were few visual lesions in either strain in two hours of stress. The number of 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) positive cells in the corpus ventriculi mucosa markedly decreased in the WKY, but did not change in the SHR after two hours of water-immersion restraint stress. The acetylcholine content in the mucosa significantly decreased and the density of acetylcholinesterase (ACh-E) containing fiber of mucosa remarkably increased in only WKY after two hours stress exposure. On the other hand, there was no significant difference in either the responsiveness or the content of norepinephrine and epinephrine, which indicates sympathetic nervous function, after stress exposure in WKY and SHR. Similarly, the response of serum gastrin was not significantly different between the two strains. These results strongly suggest that the parasympathetic nerve plays an essential role in cell proliferation of the gastric mucosa in the pathogenesis of stress ulcer.
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- J Hashiguchi
- Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan
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Shichijo K, Ito M, Taniyama K, Sekine I. The role of sympathetic neurons for low susceptibility to stress in gastric lesions. Life Sci 1993; 53:261-7. [PMID: 8321086 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(93)90677-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Stroke prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP) were less susceptible to stress in gastric lesions than Wistar-Kyoto rats used as normotensive controls. The gastric lesions induced by water-immersion restraint (WIR) in SHRSP were aggravated by pretreatment with 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA), an agent for chemical sympathectomy, following decreases in blood pressure and sympathetic nerve function. 6-OHDA treatment remarkably reduced norepinephrine content but caused increases in dopamine content and in choline acetyltransferase activity in the stomach. The mechanism of aggravation of gastric lesions in SHRSP was investigated with regard to gastric acid and motility. The pretreatment with 6-OHDA of SHRSP significantly increased the acid secretion stimulated by 2-deoxy-D-glucose indirectly acting on parietal cells via the vagus nerve, but did not change the acid secretions stimulated by carbachol, pentagastrin and histamine acting directly on parietal cells. Gastric (corpus) motility associated with WIR was completely blocked by atropine. The pretreatment with 6-OHDA in SHRSP decreased the gastric motility during WIR, which was facilitated by treatment with domperidone. These results indicate that the sympathetic hyperactivity of the stomach prevents WIR-induced gastric lesion formation mainly via the inhibition of gastric acid secretion.
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- K Shichijo
- Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan
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