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Chronic omeprazole treatment increases duodenal susceptibility to ethanol injury in rats

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To test whether omeprazole would increase the susceptibility of the duodenum to damage, 200 to 250-g male Sprague-Dawley rats were given 10 mg/kg of omeprazole (Losec) by gavage every morning for 29 days. Control rats were given gavage buffer alone. After fasting overnight, half the rats received 10 mg/kg indomethacin intraperitoneally; then all rats were given 2 ml of 50% ethanol by gavage. Three hours later the rats were killed and the stomach and duodenum removed and histologic injury to the duodenal mucosal was quantitated. In omeprazole pretreated rats, gavage with ethanol resulted in a significant twofold worsening of duodenal injury. Pretreatment with indomethacin to decrease endogenous prostaglandin production resulted in more severe ethanol-induced duodenal injury in both groups; however, there were no longer statistically significant differences between the omeprazole and control groups. Measurement of duodenal mucosal synthesis of prostaglandin E2 showed no difference between the omeprazole and control groups. Thus chronic administration of omeprazole appears to increase the susceptibility of the duodenal mucosa to ethanol injury in rats. The mechanism of this effect is as yet unknown but does not appear to be prostaglandin-mediated.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 90822, Long Beach

    Richard A. Erickson MD, Shewitt Bezabah MD, Gavin Jonas MD, Eric Lifrak & Andrzej S. Tarnawski MD, DSc

  2. University of California, 92717, Irvine, California

    Richard A. Erickson MD, Shewitt Bezabah MD, Gavin Jonas MD, Eric Lifrak & Andrzej S. Tarnawski MD, DSc

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This work was supported in part by a grant from the Research Service of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Erickson, R.A., Bezabah, S., Jonas, G. et al. Chronic omeprazole treatment increases duodenal susceptibility to ethanol injury in rats. Digest Dis Sci 36, 897–904 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01297138

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