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- Title
Impairment by 5-Fluorouracil of the Healing of Gastric Lesions in Rats: Effect of Lafutidine, a Histamine H<sub>2</sub> Receptor Antagonist, Mediated by Capsaicin-Sensitive Afferent Neurons.
- Authors
Yukiko Murashima; Tohru Kotani; Shusaku Hayashi; Yoshino Komatsu; Akari Nakagiri; Kikuko Amagase; Koji Takeuchi
- Abstract
Abstract We investigated the influence of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), an anti-tumor agent, on the healing of gastric lesions generated by 0.6 M HCl in rats and the effect of lafutidine, a histamine H2 receptor antagonist, on the impaired healing. Animals fasted for 18 h were given 1 ml of 0.6 M HCl p.o., fed normally from 1 h later, and killed 1–96 h thereafter. 5-FU was given i.v. twice, 1 h and 24 h after the HCl. The gastric lesions healed spontaneously within 96 h. Although it decreased acid secretion, 5-FU markedly delayed the healing. Lafutidine, but not cimetidine, given p.o. immediately after each dosing of 5-FU significantly reversed the delay in healing by 5-FU, and this effect was attenuated by the chemical ablation of capsaicin-sensitive afferent neurons. Capsaicin also significantly reversed the delay in healing. The mucosal application of 50 mM HCl did not affect gastric mucosal blood flow (GMBF) in the normal stomach, but significantly increased it in the stomach damaged by 0.6 M HCl. The increases in GMBF were attenuated by 5-FU; however, the co-administration of lafutidine significantly restored the response. In addition, 5-FU inhibited both cell proliferation and migration in rat gastric epithelial cells (RGM1) in vitro. These results suggest that 5-FU delayed the healing of gastric lesions generated by 0.6 M HCl, probably through the inhibition of cell migration and proliferation, as well as the impairment of GMBF, and lafutidine reversed the delay in healing, mainly through the amelioration of the GMBF response mediated by capsaicin-sensitive afferent neurons.
- Subjects
FLUOROURACIL; STOMACH injuries; EPITHELIAL cells; HISTAMINE; CAPSAICIN; NEURONS; LABORATORY rats; CELL proliferation
- Publication
Digestive Diseases & Sciences, 2009, Vol 54, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
0163-2116
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10620-008-0325-8