title: The effect of interleukin-10 on acute pancreatitis induced by cerulein in a rat experimental model.
abstract: To investigate whether interleukin-10, a potent anti-inflammatory cytokine, could have a therapeutic effect on rats on that were made pancreatitis by cerulein. Thirty Wistar Albino rats were randomized into sham, pancreatitis, and therapy groups (n = 10 in each). Nothing was applied to the sham group; pancreatitis by inject-ing cerulein (50 micro/g/kg/h) was induced in the pancreatitis and therapy groups. Interleukin-10 (10.000 U) was injected at 1 and 4 h after pancreatitis inductions in the therapy group. The rats were sacrificed at postoperative hour 24. The following parameters were investigated: the leukocyte count, blood glucose, amylase, lipase and tumor necrosis factor-alpha levels in the blood samples; histopathological search, and wet/dry weight ratios of the pancreas tissues. The ratio of wet/dry pancreatic tissue weight, serum tumor necrosis factor-alpha, amylase and lipase lev-els, and histologic damage scores in the pancreatitis and therapy groups were significantly higher when they were compared with the sham group(p < .01). However, all of these values were significantly lower in the therapy groups than in the pancreatitis group (p < .01). Interleukin-10 decreases pancreatic tissue injury induced by cerulein-induced pancreatitis in rats. Nevertheless, more experimental studies are needed to compare endogenous interleukin-10 with exogenous interleukin-10 effects before clinical usage of this drug.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, University of Erciyes, Kayseri, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Keceli
authors.forename: Can
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kucuk
authors.forename: Erdogan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sozuer
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kerek
authors.forename: Ozhan
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ince
authors.forename: Makbule
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arar
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000818:Animals; D002108:Ceruletide; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D016753:Interleukin-10 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size; D010179:Pancreas / Q000473:pathology; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D016753:Interleukin-10; D002108:Ceruletide