Abstract
We investigated the involvement of nitric oxide in trinitrobenzene-sulfonic acid (TNB) colitis. Every 24 h after TNB, rats were orally dosed with NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME; 30 mg/kg), NG-nitro-D-arginine methyl ester (D-NAME), or water, and food intake, body weight, and plasma nitrite levels were measured. On day 6, colonic nitric oxide synthase and myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity, histology, intestinal muscle growth, NADPH-diaphorase, and myenteric nerve function were assessed. Food intake and body weight were reduced during the first 72 h of colitis. On day 6 post-TNB, a fourfold increase in mucosal nitric oxide synthase, a 30-fold increase in MPO, and a fivefold elevation in plasma nitrite were measured. Smooth muscle hyperplasia and hypertrophy in both colonic muscle layers, numerous diaphorase-positive macrophages in the myenteric plexus, and a suppression of myenteric nerve function were also observed. Unlike D-NAME, oral L-NAME reduced MPO and intestinal muscle hyperplasia by > 90%. Likewise, plasma nitrite and colonic nitric oxide synthase were reduced by > 70%. L-NAME completely prevented macrophage infiltration into the muscle. Conversely, it had no effect on anorexia or intestinal smooth muscle hypertro...Continue Reading
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