Affiliation:
1. Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Inhalation Toxicology Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185
Abstract
Inhibitors of cyclooxygenases prevent fever. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that selective and dual inhibitors of the other enzyme systems of arachidonic acid oxygenation (i.e., lipoxygenase and epoxygenase) affect the time course or magnitude of fever in mice. Swiss Webster mice kept at 30°C ambient temperature were implanted with biotelemeters to monitor body temperature. Fever was induced by intraperitoneal injection of lipopolysaccharide at doses from 10 μg/kg to 2.5 mg/kg. Phenidone (20–30 mg/kg ip), a dual lipoxygenase and cyclooxygenase inhibitor, prevented fever in these mice, but esculetin (1–10 mg/kg ip), a selective inhibitor of lipoxygenases, did not affect fever. Intramuscular injection of nordihydroguaiaretic acid (10–20 mg/kg), a dual lipoxygenase and epoxygenase inhibitor, as well as SKF-525A (5 mg/kg ip) and clotrimazole (20 mg/kg im), inhibitors of the cytochrome P-450/epoxygenase pathway, augmented fever in mice. Indomethacin (5 mg/kg ip), an inhibitor of cyclooxygenase, suppressed the exacerbation of fever due to clotrimazole, suggesting that the epoxygenase inhibitor-induced potentiation of fever in mice is a prostaglandin-mediated effect. From this study, we hypothesize that the cytochrome P-450/epoxygenase branch of the arachidonate cascade is involved in antipyresis and in controlling the upper limit of fever.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Physiology
Cited by
34 articles.
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