Free Radicals Scavengers Attenuate Platelet-Activating Factor (PAF)-And Endotoxin-Induced Intestinal Myoelectric Disturbances in Rats
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Free Radical Research Communications
- Vol. 13 (1), 629-632
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10715769109145839
Abstract
Pretreatment with radical scavengers significantly reduced the intestinal myoelectric disturbances following either E. coli endotoxin or platelet-activating factor (PAF) injection in the rat indicating that free radicals might be involved in the intestinal motor alterations observed in endotoxin shock and that PAF acts partially via free radical production. Moreover, dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) was found to be more effective in inhibiting the endoxotin-induced intestinal motor alterations, than superoxide dismutase (SOD) and allopurinol. BN 52021, a specific PAF antagonist, was able to reduce the effects of endotoxin on intestinal motility. However, when BN 52021 was combined with free radical scavengers, no additive effect was observed. It is concluded that free radicals involved in endotoxin-induced intestinal motility alterations are at least in part produced in response to PAF.Keywords
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