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JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 114, Issue 3, Pages 304-310Publisher
JAPANESE PHARMACOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1254/jphs.10202FP
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sphingosine kinase; sphingosine-1-phosphate; bronchial smooth muscle; airway hyperresponsiveness; allergic bronchial asthma
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To determine if endogenously generated sphingosine-1-phosphate (S 1 P) is involved in the development of allergic bronchial asthma, the effects of systemic treatments with SKI-II, a specific inhibitor of sphingosine kinase, on antigen-induced bronchial smooth muscle (BSM) hyperresponsiveness and airway inflammation were examined in mice. Male BALB/c mice were actively sensitized with ovalbumin (OA) antigen and were repeatedly challenged with aerosolized antigen. Animals also received intraperitoneal injections with SKI-II (50 mg/kg) 1 h prior to each antigen challenge. The acetylcholine (ACh)-induced contraction of BSM isolated from the repeatedly antigen-challenged mice was significantly augmented, that is, BSM hyperresponsiveness, as compared with that from the control animals (P < 0.05). The BSM hyperresponsiveness induced by antigen exposure was ameliorated by the systemic treatment with SKI-II, whereas the treatments had no effect on BSM responsiveness to ACh in control animals. On the other hand, the systemic treatments with SKI-II had no effect on antigen-induced inflammatory signs, such as increase in cell counts in bronchoalveolar lavage fluids (BALFs) and change in airway histology; upregulation of BALF cytokines, such as interleukin-4 (IL-4) and IL-13; and elevation of total and OA-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) in sera. These findings suggest that sphingosine kinase inhibitors such as SKI-II have an ability to prevent the development of BSM hyperresponsiveness, but not of allergic airway inflammation. The endogenously generated SIP might be one of the exacerbating factors for the airway hyperresponsiveness, one of the characteristic features of allergic bronchial asthma.
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