Abstract | AIM: METHODS: Male Wistar rats (150-200g; six rats per group) were treated with distilled water or intravesical ACR and analyzed by changes in bladder wet weight, macroscopic and microscopic parameters and COX-2 expression. RESULTS: COX-2 immunohistochemical expression was significant 12h after ACR administration mainly in subepithelial cells. ACR injection also alters some macroscopic and microscopic parameters in bladder of rats analyzed by Gray's criteria. CONCLUSIONS: COX-2 participates in the pathogenesis of ACR-induced HC first seen 12h after initial contact between ACR and urothelium.
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Authors | Francisco Yuri Bulcão Macedo, Fátima Baltazar, Lívia Cajaseiras Mourão, Paulo Roberto Carvalho Almeida, José Mauricio S C Mota, Fernando C Schmitt, Ronaldo A Ribeiro |
Journal | Experimental and toxicologic pathology : official journal of the Gesellschaft fur Toxikologische Pathologie
(Exp Toxicol Pathol)
Vol. 59
Issue 6
Pg. 425-30
(Apr 2008)
ISSN: 0940-2993 [Print] Germany |
PMID | 18234483
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Chemical References |
- Acrolein
- Cyclooxygenase 2
- Ptgs2 protein, rat
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Topics |
- Acrolein
(metabolism, toxicity)
- Administration, Intravesical
- Animals
- Cyclooxygenase 2
(biosynthesis)
- Cystitis
(chemically induced, complications, enzymology)
- Disease Models, Animal
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Enzyme Induction
- Hemorrhage
(chemically induced, complications, enzymology)
- Male
- Organ Size
(drug effects)
- Rats
- Rats, Wistar
- Time Factors
- Urinary Bladder
(drug effects, enzymology, pathology)
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