Leukotriene B4-induced permeability increase in postcapillary venules and its inhibition by three different antiinflammatory drugs
- 1 December 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Inflammation
- Vol. 13 (6) , 693-705
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00914313
Abstract
Leukotriene B4 (LTB4) is a potent chemotactic and chemokinetic substance that causes leukocyte accumulation and increases vascular permeability. We have used the hamster cheek pouch model to study the effect of some different antiinflammatory drugs on the LTB4-induced microvascular permeability. Intravascular fluorescein-labeled dextran (mol wt 150,000) was used as a tracer of macromolecular leakage, which was measured as the number of venular leaky sites and as efflux of the vascular tracer. Topical application of LTB4 (10−8 M, 5 min) resulted in a reversible increase of the vascular permeability and could be repeated with 40-min intervals without any significant reduction in permeability response. The LTB4-induced response could be inhibited by budesonide (a glucocorticoid) given locally, by iloprost (a prostacyclin analog) given intravenously and by a combined local and intravenous treatment with terbutaline (aβ 2-receptor agonist) but not by local terbutaline treatment only.Keywords
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