Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 66, Issue 6 2647-2652, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Inhibition of neutral endopeptidase potentiates neurogenic inflammation in the rat trachea

E. Umeno, J. A. Nadel, H. T. Huang and D. M. McDonald
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0130.

The present study was performed to determine whether neurogenic inflammation in the rat trachea can be exaggerated by inhibiting neutral endopeptidase, an enzyme that degrades tachykinins that are believed to mediate neurogenic inflammation. Neurogenic inflammation was produced by antidromic electrical stimulation of one vagus nerve (2.5 Hz, 1 ms, 5 V for 5 min) in the presence of atropine or by an intravenous injection of capsaicin (100 micrograms/kg). Neutrophils that adhered to the endothelium of venules were visualized and counted in tracheal whole mounts that were stained by a histochemical reaction for myeloperoxidase. Neural inflammation increased the number of adherent neutrophils. Pretreatment with the neutral endopeptidase inhibitor phosphoramidon (1.0 or 2.5 mg/kg iv) increased neutrophil adhesion induced by neural inflammation. As assessed by the amount of extravasation of Monastral blue pigment, neural inflammation also increased vascular permeability, and this change was potentiated by phosphoramidon. These results are consistent with the concept that neuropeptides released from sensory nerves in the tracheal mucosa cause neutrophils to adhere to venules and increase vascular permeability and that these effects are modulated by neutral endopeptidase.

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