title: The role of serotonin in ethanol-induced gastric glandular damage in rats.
abstract: The effects of serotonin (5-HT) or methysergide (a 5-HT antagonist), given intraperitoneally 30 min beforehand, on ethanol-induced mucosal injury and mucosal blood flow were studied in rats. 5-HT itself dose dependently decreased the gastric mucosal mucus content and induced gastric damage in conscious animals. It also worsened ethanol-induced lesion formation but not mucus depletion. Methysergide pretreatment only prevented the former action. In the ex vivo chamber preparation, 5-HT lowered the gastric mucosal blood flow and produced mucosal damage in unconscious animals. It also potentiated ethanol-induced gastric injury and 5-HT release. Methysergide significantly prevented lesion formation and 5-HT release in ethanol-treated rats. Ethanol decreased the gastric mucosal blood flow in the mucosa which had been preincubated with HCl. This depression of gastric mucosal blood flow was further reduced by 5-HT, but was reversed by methysergide. The lesion-potentiating or -protecting actions of 5-HT or methysergide, respectively, suggest that the amine is involved in gastric mucosal damage by ethanol in rats.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong.
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Ogle
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D000431:Ethanol / Q000633:toxicity*; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D008784:Methysergide / Q000494:pharmacology; D009093:Mucus / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012039:Regional Blood Flow / Q000187:drug effects; D012701:Serotonin / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000502:physiology*; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D012701:Serotonin; D000431:Ethanol; D008784:Methysergide