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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-9-4
pubmed:abstractText
Recent studies have suggested that nitric oxide (NO) peripherally produced by different nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoforms contributes to edema formation and development of hyperalgesia. The present study was designed to examine the effects of NOS isoforms on NO release in carrageenan-induced inflammation at various time points. A microdialysis probe was implanted subcutaneously into the glabrous skin of hindpaws of Sprague-Dawley rats under pentobarbital anesthesia. After sample collection to obtain the basal level of the total amount of nitrite and nitrate (NO2-/NO3-), modified Ringer solution, a non-selective NOS inhibitor, NG monomethyl-L-arginine acetate (L-NMMA), or an iNOS inhibitor, aminoguanidine hemisulfate (AG) was perfused through the microdialysis probe. 2 mg of carrageenan was injected into the plantar surface of the probe-implanted hindpaw. Carrageenan was also injected in rats that had undergone sciatic nerve sectioning. Carrageenan significantly increased the dialysate concentrations of NO2-/NO3- for more than 8 h. L-NMMA suppressed the carrageenan-induced increase in NO2-/NO3- concentration. Although AG did not suppress the increase in NO2-/NO3- for the first 2 h after carrageenan injection, significant suppression of the increase in NO2-/NO3- was observed from 2.5 h after carrageenan injection. In the rats in which the sciatic nerves had been denervated, the increases in concentrations of NO2-/NO3- were completely suppressed up to 3 h and partially suppressed 4.5-8 h after carrageenan injection. The results of the current study show that carrageenan induces peripheral release of NO, the production of which is mediated by nNOS in the early phase and by both nNOS and iNOS in the late phase of carrageenan-induced inflammation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0006-8993
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
7
pubmed:volume
912
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
171-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Carrageenan, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Drug Interactions, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Edema, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Enzyme Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Guanidines, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Hyperalgesia, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Inflammation, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Injections, Subcutaneous, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Nitrates, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Nitric Oxide, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Nitric Oxide Synthase, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Nitrites, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Protein Isoforms, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Sciatic Nerve, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:11532433-omega-N-Methylarginine
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Peripheral nitric oxide in carrageenan-induced inflammation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Anesthesiology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, South-1, West-16, Chuoku, 060-8543, Sapporo, Japan. komote@sapmed.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article