Divergent effects of irritants on the gastric mucosa in rats during various stages after bile duct ligation

• Published in: Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology 2010-06, Vol.25 (6), p.1170-1175
• Main Authors: Ackerman, Zvi, Karmeli, Fanny, Pappo, Orit
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Animals; bile duct ligation; Biological and medical sciences; Cholestasis, Extrahepatic - complications; Cholestasis, Extrahepatic - metabolism; Cholestasis, Extrahepatic - physiopathology; Common Bile Duct - surgery; Dinoprostone - metabolism; Disease Models, Animal; Disease Progression; ethanol; Ethanol - administration & dosage; Ethanol - toxicity; Gastric Mucosa - drug effects; Gastric Mucosa - metabolism; Gastric Mucosa - pathology; gastric mucosal damage; Gastroenterology. Liver. Pancreas. Abdomen; hydrochloric acid; Hydrochloric Acid - administration & dosage; Hydrochloric Acid - toxicity; Instillation, Drug; Irritants - administration & dosage; Irritants - toxicity; Ligation; Male; Medical sciences; Nitric Oxide - antagonists & inhibitors; Nitric Oxide - metabolism; nitric oxide synthase; PGE2 generation; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Stomach Diseases - etiology; Stomach Diseases - metabolism; Stomach Diseases - pathology
• ISSN: 0815-9319; 1440-1746
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2010.06284.x

Background and Aim:  Controversy exists as to whether rats after bile duct ligation (BDL) are more susceptible to gastric mucosal damage (GMD) induced by irritants. In the present study we characterize GMD after intragastric instillation of either ethanol or hydrochloric acid (HCL), 3 and 21 days after the surgical procedure. Methods:  Bile duct ligation and sham operated (SO) rats were studied. Results:  Three days after surgery, BDL rats exhibited a reduction in gastric mucosal nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity but an increase in ethanol‐induced GMD. Twenty‐one days after surgery gastric mucosal prostaglandin (PG) E2 generation in BDL rats was increased while NOS activity in both groups was similar. Ethanol‐induced GMD in SO rats was higher. Pretreatment with NG‐nitro‐L‐arginine methyl ester, prior to ethanol administration was associated with an increase in gastric mucosal PGE2 generation: (147% in SO and 104% in BDL rats) and in GMD (176% in SO and 303% in BDL rats). HCL induced GMD was of similar magnitude in both groups in both time periods. Conclusions:  The gastric resistance to damage by irritants in rats with BDL is not a static phenomenon. This may result from sequential changes that occur in the gastric mucosal defense mechanisms during the evolution of liver disease.