title: Luminal acid in water-immersion stress and the antiulcer effect of axetazolamide in the rat gastric mucosa.
abstract: The influence of water-immersion stress on gastric acid secretion, and the effect of acetazolamide (a potent carbonic anhydrase inhibitor) on acid secretion, and gastric mucosal lesion formation in rats under water-immersion stress were studied. Acid secretion in pylorus-ligated rats decreased under a 10_h stress period as compared with that of rats under normal conditions. Intraperitoneal administration of acetazolamide (100, 50, 25 mg/kg every 5 h for a total of two times) which significantly inhibited acid secretion in a dose-dependent fashion of stressed rats, prevented the development of gastric mucosal lesions produced by stress. Non antisecretory dose of acetazolamide (5 mg/kg, intraperitoneal administration every 5 h for a total of two times) did not prevent the formation of gastric mucosal lesions. Stress ulcer aggravation by acid administration (150 mM HCl, 0.5 ml/h) into the stomach during the stress was not prevented by treatment with antisecretory acetazolamide dose. We conclude that: (1) the exposure of rats to water-immersion stress for 10 h decreases gastric acid secretion, and (2) acetazolamide suppresses water-immersion stress-induced gastric lesions by inhibiting acid secretion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Pathology II, Faculty of Medical Sciences, National University of Rosario, Argentina.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Gutierrez-Cabano
mesh_terms: D000086:Acetazolamide / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D002257:Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005260:Female; D005744:Gastric Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000187:drug effects*; D007101:Immersion; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013276:Stomach Ulcer; D013312:Stress, Physiological; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D002257:Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors; D014867:Water; D000086:Acetazolamide