title: [Studies on relationships between the inhibition of human neutrophil NADPH oxidase by anti-inflammatory drugs and development of bacterial infections].
abstract: The effects of anti-inflammatory drugs (acetylsalicylic acid, ASA; salicylic acid, SA; indomethacin, IM; hydrocortisone, HC) on the respiratory burst oxidase (NADPH oxidase) from human neutrophils in both whole cell and fully soluble (cell-free) systems were investigated. These drugs were found to inhibit the superoxide generation by human neutrophils exposed to phorbol myristate acetate in a whole cell system and the activation of superoxide-generating NADPH oxidase by sodium dodecyl sulfate in cell-free systems. Concentrations of these drugs required for 50% inhibition of the oxidase (ID50) were; ASA (more than 3.0 mM in the whole cell system and 1.35 mM in the cell-free system), SA (more than 3.0 mM in the whole cell system and 1.30 mM in the cell-free system), IM (180 microM in both systems) and HC (50 microM in the whole cell system and 40 microM in the cell-free system). In addition, these drugs time-dependently inhibited the activation of NADPH oxidase in cell-free systems. In the cell-free system, all of the drugs did not change the Km values for NADPH of the oxidase. These results suggest that these anti-inflammatory drugs, especially HC and IM, inhibit the reconstitution (activation) of neutrophil NADPH oxidase enzyme in the cell-free (whole cell) system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Umeki
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Soejima
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000201:enzymology*; D004789:Enzyme Activation / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D009247:NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D019255:NADPH Oxidases; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D009247:NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases; D019255:NADPH Oxidases