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TOXICOLOGY AND APPLIED PHARMACOLOGY
卷 171, 期 3, 页码 165-173出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1006/taap.2000.9117
关键词
pulmonary hypertension; substance P; antioxidants; oxygen radicals
We attempted to evaluate whether the antioxidants 1,3-dimethyl-2-thiourea (DMTU) and hexa(sulfobutyl)fullerenes (FC4S) attenuate monocrotaline (MCT)-induced pulmonary hypertension (PH) by lowering lung substance P (SP) in Wister rats. Sixty-three rats weighing 297 +/- 8 g were divided into six groups: control; MCT; capsaicin + MCT; MCT + DMTU-1; MCT + DMTU-2; and MCT + FC4S. Three weeks before the functional study, saline was injected into each control rat, whereas each MCT rat received 60 mg/kg sc MCT. Rats in the third group received capsaicin pretreatment followed by MCT, A S-day injection of DMTU was performed during the early (DMTU-1) or the late (DMTU-2) post-MCT period. For the last group, each MCT-treated rat received a daily FC4S injection until the commencement of the functional study. Compared to the control group, MCT caused significant increases in pulmonary arterial pressure (Ppa), right ventricular hypertropy, pulmonary arterial medial thickness, lung SP level, and luminol-enhanced chemiluminescence counts in bronchoalveolar lavage. Both capsaicin and antioxidants significantly attenuated the above MCT-induced alterations. SP-induced acute increase in Ppa was exaggerated in MCT-treated rats. These results suggest that oxygen radicals play an important role in MCT-induced PH via elevating lung SP level. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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