title: Role of oxygen radicals in indomethacin-induced gastric mucosal microvascular injury in rats.
abstract: To investigate the pathogenesis of indomethacin-induced gastric mucosal injury, vascular injury was examined in the rat using Evans blue and monastral blue vascular tracers. Extravasation of intravenously injected Evans blue into the gastric mucosa was used as an indicator of vascular permeability. Monastral blue was used to demonstrate vascular injury morphologically. The extravasated content of Evans blue significantly increased and reached the maximum at 2 h after indomethacin administration. The increase in Evans blue content was significantly inhibited by the pretreatment with superoxide dismutase (SOD) and SOD + catalase, but not with catalase alone. Monastral blue-labeled damaged endothelial cells in the gastric mucosa also increased at 2 h after indomethacin administration, which increase was reduced by pretreatment with SOD and SOD + catalase. These results indicate that oxygen radicals, including the superoxide radical, play an important role in the microvascular injury induced by indomethacin, which in turn plays a primary role in the development of gross hemorrhagic erosions.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Naito
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshikawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kaneko
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iinuma
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nishimura
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kondo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002199:Capillary Permeability / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D002374:Catalase / Q000494:pharmacology; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000098:blood supply*; D007213:Indomethacin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D008833:Microcirculation / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species / Q000378:metabolism*; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000473:pathology; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species; D002374:Catalase; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase; D007213:Indomethacin