title: [Pharmacological study on Agkistrodon blomhoffii blomhoffii BOIE. I. Effect of the 50% ethanolic extract on experimental gastric ulceration].
abstract: Anti-ulcerogenic activities of a 50% ethanolic extract [( M]) from whole body of Agkistrodon blomhoffii blomhoffii BOIE were investigated in rats. [M] at oral doses of 250-500 mg/kg was found to show a prophylactic effect on the water-immersion stress- and ethanol-induced ulcer and a remedial effect on acetic acid-induced ulcer, but not Shay-ulcer in pylorus-ligated rats and indomethacin-induced ulcer. [M] increased the gastric mucosal blood flow in intact rats and improved the decrease of the blood flow in acetic acid-induced ulcer rats. [M] inhibited the decrease in content of hexosamine of gastric mucosa in rats treated with acetic acid. These results suggest that [M] have a prophylactic effect on ulcerogenics, and an anti-ulcer effect by the increase and/or maintenance of gastric mucosal blood flow and hexosamine, but further investigations are required to understand the mechanism involved.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Kubo
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Moriura
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Makino
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Matsuda
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000897:Anti-Ulcer Agents / Q000032:analysis* / Q000494:pharmacology; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000098:blood supply / Q000187:drug effects; D006595:Hexosamines / Q000032:analysis; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012911:Snakes; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000517:prevention & control*
chemical_list: D000897:Anti-Ulcer Agents; D006595:Hexosamines