Affiliation:
1. Department of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Abstract
Hydrophobic bile acids impair gallbladder emptying in vivo and inhibit gallbladder muscle contraction in response to CCK-8 in vitro. This study was aimed at determining the mechanisms of muscle cell dysfunction caused by bile acids in guinea pig gallbladders. Muscle cells were obtained by enzymatic digestion. Taurochenodeoxycholic acid (TCDC), a hydrophobic bile acid, caused a contraction of up to 15% and blocked CCK-induced contraction. Indomethacin abolished the TCDC-induced contraction. Hydrophilic bile acid tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDC) had no effect on muscle contraction but prevented the TCDC-induced contraction and its inhibition on CCK-induced contraction. Pretreatment with NADPH oxidase inhibitor Ph2I, xanthine oxidase inhibitor allopurinol, and free-radical scavenger catalase also prevented TCDC-induced contraction and its inhibition of the CCK-induced contraction. TCDC caused H2O2production, lipid peroxidation, and increased PGE2synthesis and activities of catalase and SOD. These changes were significantly inhibited by pretreatment of Ph2I or allopurinol. Inhibitors of cytosolic phospholipase A2(cPLA2), protein kinase C (PKC), and mitogen-activating protein kinase (MAPK) also blocked the TCDC-induced contraction. It is concluded that hydrophobic bile acids cause muscle cell dysfunction by stimulating the formation of H2O2via activation of NADPH and xanthine oxidase. H2O2causes lipid peroxidation and activates cPLA2to increase PGE2production, which, in turn, stimulates the synthesis of free-radical scavengers through the PKC-MAPK pathway.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Gastroenterology,Hepatology,Physiology
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