A growing number of reports demonstrate that a proinflammatory and oxidative condition is related to the pathogenesis and the progression of endotoxin-induced septic shock and that antioxidants may have therapeutic potential in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced sepsis. Melatonin has been shown to possess potent antioxidant properties in several models of inflammation in mice and rats. In the present study we focused on the possible protective mechanism of melatonin in preventing gastrointestinal (GI) disturbances induced by LPS in mice. In fact, mice treated with LPS showed a reduced gastric emptying of solid beads. Also the geometric center, representing the relative distribution of the solid beads throughout the entire GI tract, was significantly reduced in LPS-treated mice conforming that sepsis leads to a disturbed GI motility in mice. Melatonin completely reversed the LPS-induced motility disturbance. This beneficial effect of melatonin is associated with a reduction in lipid peroxidation, MAPK activation, NF-kappaB activation, iNOS transcription and expression and nitrite production in intestinal tissue from septic mice. These results demonstrate that melatonin prevents the LPS-induced GI disturbances in mice switching off the pro-oxidant pathways induced by the endotoxin. Therefore, it is reasonable to propose melatonin as a molecule with therapeutic potential for the treatment of systemic in. ammation by interfering at the earliest steps of activation of the oxidative and pro-inflammatory cascade.

Melatonin reverses lipopolysaccharide-induced gastro-intestinal motility disturbances through the inhibition of oxidative stress / DE FILIPPIS, D; Iuvone, T; Esposito, Giuseppe; Steardo, Luca; Arnold, Gh; Paul, Ap; De, Man; Joris, G; DE WINTER BENEDICTE, Y.. - In: JOURNAL OF PINEAL RESEARCH. - ISSN 0742-3098. - STAMPA. - 44:(2008), pp. 45-51. [10.1111/j.1600-079X.2007.00526.x]

Melatonin reverses lipopolysaccharide-induced gastro-intestinal motility disturbances through the inhibition of oxidative stress.

ESPOSITO, GIUSEPPE;STEARDO, LUCA;
2008

Abstract

A growing number of reports demonstrate that a proinflammatory and oxidative condition is related to the pathogenesis and the progression of endotoxin-induced septic shock and that antioxidants may have therapeutic potential in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced sepsis. Melatonin has been shown to possess potent antioxidant properties in several models of inflammation in mice and rats. In the present study we focused on the possible protective mechanism of melatonin in preventing gastrointestinal (GI) disturbances induced by LPS in mice. In fact, mice treated with LPS showed a reduced gastric emptying of solid beads. Also the geometric center, representing the relative distribution of the solid beads throughout the entire GI tract, was significantly reduced in LPS-treated mice conforming that sepsis leads to a disturbed GI motility in mice. Melatonin completely reversed the LPS-induced motility disturbance. This beneficial effect of melatonin is associated with a reduction in lipid peroxidation, MAPK activation, NF-kappaB activation, iNOS transcription and expression and nitrite production in intestinal tissue from septic mice. These results demonstrate that melatonin prevents the LPS-induced GI disturbances in mice switching off the pro-oxidant pathways induced by the endotoxin. Therefore, it is reasonable to propose melatonin as a molecule with therapeutic potential for the treatment of systemic in. ammation by interfering at the earliest steps of activation of the oxidative and pro-inflammatory cascade.
2008
antioxidant; gastro-intestinal disturbance; lipopolysaccharide; melatonin; NFKB
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Melatonin reverses lipopolysaccharide-induced gastro-intestinal motility disturbances through the inhibition of oxidative stress / DE FILIPPIS, D; Iuvone, T; Esposito, Giuseppe; Steardo, Luca; Arnold, Gh; Paul, Ap; De, Man; Joris, G; DE WINTER BENEDICTE, Y.. - In: JOURNAL OF PINEAL RESEARCH. - ISSN 0742-3098. - STAMPA. - 44:(2008), pp. 45-51. [10.1111/j.1600-079X.2007.00526.x]
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