Korean J Parasitol.
2003 Jun;41(2):81-87. 10.3347/kjp.2003.41.2.81.
Effects of anti-allergic drugs on intestinal mastocytosis and worm expulsion of rats infected with Neodiplostomum seoulense
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- 1Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul 110-799, Korea.
- 2Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-280, Korea.
- 3Department of Parasitology, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul 156-756, Korea.
- KMID: 1080958
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2003.41.2.81
Abstract
- The effects of anti-allergic drugs on intestinal mastocytosis and the expulsion of Neodiplostomum seoulense were observed in Sprague-Dawley rats, after oral infection with 500 metacercariae. The drugs used were hydroxyzine (a histamine receptor H1 blocker), cimetidine (a H2 blocker), cyclosporin-A (a helper T-cell suppressant), and prednisolone (a T- and B-cell suppressant). Infected, but untreated controls, and uninfected controls, were prepared. Worm recovery rate and intestinal mastocytosis were measured on weeks 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 post-infection. Compared with the infected controls, worm expulsion was significantly (P < 0.05) delayed in hydroxyzine- and cimetidine-treated rats, despite mastocytosis being equally marked in the duodenum of all three groups. In the cyclosporin-A- and prednisolone-treated groups, mastocytosis was suppressed, but worm expulsion was only slightly delayed, without statistical significance. Our results suggest that binding of histamine to its receptors on intestinal smooth muscles is more important in terms of the expulsion of N. seoulense from rats than the levels of histamine alone, or mastocytosis.
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Animals
Cimetidine/pharmacology
Cyclosporine/pharmacology
Histamine H1 Antagonists/*pharmacology
Histamine H2 Antagonists/*pharmacology
Hydroxyzine/pharmacology/therapeutic use
Immunosuppressive Agents/*pharmacology
Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic/*drug therapy
Mastocytosis/*drug therapy/parasitology
Prednisolone/*pharmacology
Rats
Rats, Sprague-Dawley
Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Trematoda/*growth & development/metabolism
Trematode Infections/*drug therapy
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