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Peripheral corticotropin releasing hormone mediates post-inflammatory visceral hypersensitivity in rats
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- Issue Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The WJG Press
- Citation
- World J Gastroenterol 2008; 14: 731-736
- Abstract
- AIM: To investigate whether peripheral corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH), which is up-regulated in intestinal inflammation, mediates the post-inflammatory visceral hypersensitivity in a rat model of colitis.
METHODS: We measured mucosal myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity as a marker of inflammation, plasma CRH level, and abdominal withdrawal reflex (AWR) to colorectal distension as a visceral nociceptive response at 2, 7 and 14 d after the induction of colitis with 4% acetic acid.
RESULTS: Colonic inflammation, quantified by MPO activity, significantly increased on d 2 and subsided thereafter, which indicated a resolution of inflammation within 7 d. On the contrary, plasma CRH level and AWR score were increased on d 2, remained high on d 7, and returned to control level on d 14. Intraperitoneal injection of a CRH antagonist, astressin (30 mg/kg), significantly attenuated the post-inflammatory visceral hypersensitivity on d 7. Furthermore, intraperitoneal administration of CRH (3 and 10 mg/kg) mimicked the post-inflammatory visceral hypersensitivity in naive rats.
CONCLUSION: These results suggest that increased peripheral CRH mediates the enhanced visceral nociception in rats recovered from experimental colitis.
- ISSN
- 1007-9327
- Language
- English
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