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RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROBIOLOGY
Volume 231, Issue -, Pages 7-13Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2016.05.012
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Cannabinoids; Airway hyperreactivity; DNFB; Non-atopic asthma; Mouse
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- Hacettepe University Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit [5907]
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Cannabinoids have anti-inflammatory effects and can produce bronchodilation in the airways. We have investigated the effects of cannabinoids on tracheal hyperreactivity and airway inflammation in dinitrofluorobenzene (DNFB)-induced experimental non-atopic asthma in mice. 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)-induced contraction response was enhanced while carbachol- and electrical field stimulation induced contractions, and isoprenaline-induced relaxation responses were remained unchanged in DNFB group. The increased 5-HT-induced contractions were inhibited by incubation with either atropine or tetrodotoxin. DNFB application resulted in increased macrophage number in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF). In vivo ACEA (CB1 agonist) treatment prevented the increase in 5-HT contractions, while JWH133 (CB2 agonist) had no effect. However, neither ACEA nor JWH133 prevented the increase in macrophage number in BALF. In vitro ACEA incubation also inhibited the increase in 5-HT contraction in DNFB group. These results show that cannabinoid CBI receptor agonist can prevent tracheal hyperreactivity to 5-HT in DNFB-induced non-atopic asthma in mice. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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