title: Involvement of prostaglandins in an animal model of Shigella-related seizures.
abstract: We investigated whether prostaglandins (PGs), proinflammatory mediators implicated in excitatory activity, are involved in Shigella-related seizures. Pretreatment with S. dysenteriae sonicate (2LD(50)) enhanced mice response to pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures, without increase of brain concentrations of PGE(2), PGD(2) or PGF(2alpha). Preinjection of NS-398, an inhibitor of cyclooxygenase-2, before treatment with Shigella sonicate, had no effect on seizures. The anticonvulsive PGD(2) increased after injection of 8 LD(50) of Shigella sonicate, which did not enhance seizures (32 pg/mg vs 26 pg/ml, p=0.0063). The findings indicate that PGs are not involved in the enhanced seizure response after exposure to Shigella. However, induction of PGD(2) may play an inhibitory role.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach Tikva 49100, Tel Aviv, Israel. yuhas@post.tau.ac.il
authors.forename: Yael
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yuhas
authors.forename: Abraham
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Weizman
authors.forename: Alexey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vanichkin
authors.forename: Shai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ashkenazi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D016861:Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D015237:Dinoprost / Q000378:metabolism; D015232:Dinoprostone / Q000378:metabolism; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004347:Drug Interactions; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / Q000379:methods; D007928:Lethal Dose 50; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR; D009578:Nitrobenzenes / Q000494:pharmacology; D010433:Pentylenetetrazole; D015230:Prostaglandin D2 / Q000378:metabolism; D011453:Prostaglandins / Q000378:metabolism*; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000382:microbiology; D012762:Shigella dysenteriae; D013449:Sulfonamides / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D016861:Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors; D009578:Nitrobenzenes; D011453:Prostaglandins; D013449:Sulfonamides; C080955:N-(2-cyclohexyloxy-4-nitrophenyl)methanesulfonamide; D015237:Dinoprost; D015232:Dinoprostone; D015230:Prostaglandin D2; D010433:Pentylenetetrazole