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1 Mucosal Inflammation Research Group and 3 Neuroscience Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 4N1 Canada; and 2 Department of Gastroenterology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, New South Wales, 2065 Australia
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs elevate gastric acid secretion, possibly contributing to their ability to interfere with gastric ulcer healing. Inhibitors of cyclooxygenase-2 have been shown to delay experimental gastric ulcer healing. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that cyclooxygenase-2-derived prostaglandins modulate gastric acid secretion. Studies were performed in normal rats and in rats with iodoacetamide-induced gastritis. Inflammation in the latter group was confirmed histologically and by a threefold increase in tissue levels of the granulocyte marker myeloperoxidase and was also associated with overexpression of cyclooxygenase-2 in the stomach. Basal acid secretion in both groups of rats was not affected by pretreatment with DuP-697, a selective inhibitor of cyclooxygenase-2. A nonselective cyclooxygenase inhibitor, indomethacin, had no effect on acid secretion in normal rats but caused a doubling of acid secretion in the rats with gastritis. DuP-697 had no effect on pentagastrin-induced secretion in either group of rats. Gastritis itself was associated with significantly increased pentagastrin-induced acid secretion, and this was further increased in rats pretreated with indomethacin. These results suggest that in a setting of gastric inflammation, prostaglandins derived from cyclooxygenase-1, not cyclooxygenase-2, exert inhibitory effects on acid secretion.
prostaglandin; gastritis; inflammation; mucosa
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