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Suppression of Gastrin Production after Cisplatin Treatment in Rats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

Y. Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI48824
S. K. Aggarwal
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI48824
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Cisplatin, a commonly used broad spectrum chemotherapeutic drug, has been proven effective in the treatments of bladder, lung, ovarian, head and neck, testicular and breast cancers. One of the major side effects of this drug is its gastrointestinal toxicity, which includes severe nausea, vomiting and in case of rats bloating of the stomach and gastric ulceration. In case of rats, it manifests as bloating of the stomach and gastric ulceration since the rats don't have vomiting reflex. This has been attributed to hypocalcemia induced by cisplatin treatment which results in the suppression of acetylcholine and constitutive nitric oxide release inducing a bloating of the stomach. This has further been shown to induce an increase in the acid content of the stomach. There are no studies available on any changes of gastric protection after cisplatin treatment Gastrin has been shown to have gastroprotective effects against injury by maintaining the gastric mucosal integrity and gastric mucosal blood flow.

Type
Cytochemistry (Light and Electron Histochemistry)
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America

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