title: Role of nitric oxide in the gastric cytoprotection induced by central vagal stimulation.
abstract: The role of nitric oxide (NO) in the vagal cholinergic-mediated cytoprotective effect of intracisternal (i.c.) injection of the stable thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) analog, RX 77368, was investigated in conscious rats. RX 77368 (1.5 ng i.c.) reduced by 88% gastric hemorrhagic lesions induced by oral administration of ethanol (60%). L-NG-Nitro-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME, 3 mg/kg i.v.), an inhibitor of NO synthase, abolished the cytoprotection provided by i.c. RX 77368. The effect of L-NAME was reversed by L- but not D-arginine. These results suggest that the L-arginine-nitric oxide pathway is involved in the cytoprotective effect of i.c. TRH analog, probably through the modulation of gastric mucosal blood flow.
authors.affiliation: CURE/UCLA Digestive Disease Center, Veterans Administration Wadsworth Medical Center 90073.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Király
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sütö
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Taché
mesh_terms: D000594:Amino Acid Oxidoreductases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D000818:Animals; D001120:Arginine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D000431:Ethanol / Q000633:toxicity; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects*; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008297:Male; D019331:NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000378:metabolism*; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D011761:Pyrrolidonecarboxylic Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013973:Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D014630:Vagus Nerve / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D009569:Nitric Oxide; D000431:Ethanol; D013973:Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone; C027979:L-pyroglutamyl-L-histidyl-3,3-dimethylprolinamide; D001120:Arginine; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D000594:Amino Acid Oxidoreductases; D011761:Pyrrolidonecarboxylic Acid; D019331:NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester