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- Title
Active smoking depresses prostaglandin synthesis in human gastric mucosa.
- Authors
Quimby, G. Forest; Bonnice, Canan Avunduk; Burstein, Sumner H.; Eastwood, Gregory L.; Quimby, G F; Bonnice, C A; Burstein, S H; Eastwood, G L
- Abstract
To determine the effect of smoking on gastroduodenal mucosal prostaglandin synthesis, endoscopies were done after an overnight fast on 10 nonsmokers, 12 active smokers who smoked four cigarettes in the hour before endoscopy, and then 11 of the smokers who refrained from smoking for 12 hours. Biopsy samples of fundic, antral, and duodenal mucosae were incubated, and the accumulation of prostaglandin E2 and 6-keto-prostaglandin F1 alpha in the incubation medium was measured by radioimmunoassay. We assumed that accumulation of prostaglandins in the medium reflected mucosal synthesis. Comparison of active and inactive smoking showed that active smoking significantly depressed 6-keto-prostaglandin F1 alpha synthesis in antral and fundic mucosa and prostaglandin E2 synthesis in antral mucosa. Comparison of nonsmokers and inactive smokers showed no difference in prostaglandin synthesis. Active smoking causes a transient decrease in prostaglandin synthesis in fundic and antral mucosae. This depression of prostaglandin synthesis may help explain slower ulcer healing and predisposition to ulcer recurrence in smokers.
- Subjects
SMOKING; PROSTAGLANDIN synthesis; GASTROINTESTINAL system
- Publication
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1986, Vol 104, Issue 5, p616
- ISSN
0003-4819
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.7326/0003-4819-104-5-616