Digestive Diseases and Sciences

, Volume 36, Issue 10, pp 1353–1360 | Cite as

Inability of cytoprotection to occur during a period of gastric ischemia

  • Gary M. Frydman
  • Angela G. Penney
  • Cathy Malcontenti
  • Paul E. O'Brien
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Abstract

Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), colloidal bismuth subcitrate (CBS), and sucralfate (SUC) are known to protect the gastric mucosa from ethanol injury. The proposed central role for the microcirculation in gastric mucosal defense and as a site for the expression of the protective effects of these agents was investigated in the rat stomach. Animals were pretreated with either PGE2, CBS, or SUC. Control rats were given normal saline. After allowing 15 min for expression of the pretreatment, ethanol was administered as a 10%, 25%, 50% or 100% solution to groups of rats with normally perfused stomach and to other groups of rats in whom the stomach was made ischemic by cross-clamping the supracoeliac aorta immediately prior to the instillation of ethanol. The extent of gastric mucosal damage was measured using quantitative histological techniques and expressed as a percentage of surface area and volume of mucosa damaged. In the presence of ischemia, the extent of damage by ethanol was markedly increased, with total destruction of the mucosa by the 50% and 100% solutions. With 25% ethanol, the volume of mucosal damage was increased from 0.5% in the normally perfused stomach to 53.5% with ischemia. When 10% ethanol was instilled into the ischemic stomach, only 0.8% of the volume of the mucosa was damaged, which was not different from the volume of mucosa damaged after the ischemic stomach was exposed to normal saline alone (1.0%). Pretreatment with PGE2, CBS, or SUC did not significantly change the extent of damage seen with exposure of the ischemic stomach to 25% or 50% ethanol. These results show that the absence of normal mucosal microvascular perfusion markedly increases the extent of damage by ethanol and that, in the absence of microvascular flow, the protective effects of PGE2, CBS, and SUC are not expressed. These findings support the proposal that a primary component of the protective action of these agents is the, maintenance of the integrity of the mucosal microvasculature.

Key Words

cytoprotection microcirculation sucralfate prostaglandin E2 colloidal bismuth subcitrate ischemia 
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© Plenum Publishing Corporation 1991

Authors and Affiliations

  • Gary M. Frydman
    • 1
  • Angela G. Penney
    • 1
  • Cathy Malcontenti
    • 1
  • Paul E. O'Brien
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of SurgeryMonash University, Alfred HospitalMelbourneAustralia

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