The effects of glufimet and phenibut (glutamic acid and GABA derivatives, respectively) on concentration of inducible NO synthase and cGMP in LPS-activated mouse peritoneal macrophages and on NO end products in their culture medium were examined in vitro and ex vivo. Addition of LPS into culture medium elevated concentration of NO metabolites in this medium and increased concentration of inducible NO synthase and cGMP in the lysates of peritoneal macrophages, whereas incubation of the cells with examined agents applied at concentration of 10—5 M diminished these indices. Similar results were obtained with intraperitoneal injection of LPS, glufimet, and phenibut. In culture medium containing peritoneal macrophages from the mice injected with LPS (100 μg/kg), the concentrations of inducible NO synthase and cGMP as well as the total concentration of nitrite and nitrate ions increased, whereas in culture medium with the cells from LPS-exposed mice treated with glufimet (28.7 mg/kg) and phenibut (50 mg/kg) these indices significantly decreased.
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Translated from Byulleten’ Eksperimental’noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 164, No. 8, pp. 205-208, August, 2017
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Borisov, A.V., Prokofiev, I.I., Mokrousov, I.S. et al. Inhibition of the Expression of Inducible NO Synthase by Neuroactive Amino Acid Derivatives Phenibut and Glufimet In Vitro and Ex Vivo . Bull Exp Biol Med 164, 177–180 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10517-017-3952-2
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