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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY RESEARCH
Volume 70, Issue 10, Pages 1259-1268Publisher
AMER VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.70.10.1259
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- Morris Animal Foundation
- Merck-Merial Veterinary Scholars Summer Research Program
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Objective-To investigate effects of lidocaine hydrochloride administered IV on mucosal inflammation in ischemia-injured jejunum of horses treated with flunixin meglumine. Animals-24 horses. Procedures-Horses received saline (0.9% NaCl) solution (SS; 1 mL/50 kg, IV [1 close]), flunixin meglumine (1 mg/kg, IV, q 12 h), liclocaine (bolus [1.3 mg/kg] and constant rate infusion [0.05 mg/kg/min], IV, during and after recovery from surgery), or both flunixin and liclocaine (n = 6/group). During surgery, blood flow was occluded for 2 hours in 2 sections of jejunum in each horse. Uninjured and ischemia-injured jejunal specimens were collected after the ischemic period and after euthanasia 18 hours later for histologic assessment and determination of cyclooxygenase (COX) expression (via western blot procedures). Plasma samples collected prior to (baseline) and 8 hours after the ischemic period were analyzed for prostanoid concentrations. Results-Immediately after the ischemic period, COX-2 expression in horses treated with liclocaine alone was significantly less than expression in horses treated with SS or flunixin alone. Eighteen hours after the ischemic period, mucosal neutrophil counts in horses treated with flunixin alone were significantly higher than counts in other treatment groups. Compared with baseline plasma concentrations, postischemia prostaglandin E-2 metabolite and thromboxane B-2 concentrations increased in horses treated with SS and in horses treated with SS or liclocaine alone, respectively. Conclusions and Clinical Relevance-In horses with ischemia-injured jejunum, liclocaine administered IV reduced plasma prostaglandin E-2 metabolite concentration and mucosal COX-2 expression. Coadministration of liclocaine with flunixin ameliorated the flunixin-induced increase in mucosal neutrophil counts. (Am J Vet Res 2009;70:1259-1268)
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