PREVENTIVE EFFECT OF PIRFENIDONE AGAINST EXPERIMENTAL SCLEROSING PERITONITIS IN RATS
PREVENTIVE EFFECT OF PIRFENIDONE AGAINST EXPERIMENTAL SCLEROSING PERITONITIS IN RATS
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DOI:
10.1016/s0940-2993(11)80261-7
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发表时间:
1995-09-01
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MARGOLIN, SB
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HIDEIKU, S;TERAOKA, S;MARGOLIN, SB
We investigated the preventive effect of pirfenidone (PFD), a newly developed anti-fibrotic agent, on experimental sclerosing peritonitis (sp) which we had established in rats. Male Wistar rats (150-250 g) were divided into the following two groups; 7 rats were treated with daily intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of 0.1% chlorhexidine gluconate (CH) and 15% ethanol solved in 2 ml of saline for 26 days as a control of SP model (CH group) and 6 rats were treated daily with peroral (p.o.) administration of 350 mg/kg of PFD in addition to the daily i.p. injection of aforementioned CH-ethanol-saline solution for 26 days (CH + PFD group). Macroscopic intraperitoneal changes and histological fibrotic changes were graded by scoring in a blind manner.Actual subserosal thickness was measured by observation under light microscope. Body weight gain was significantly greater in CH + PFD group than in CH group (P < 0.05). Macroscopic intraperitoneal adhesion changes in CH + PFD group were significantly fewer than in CH group (P < 0.05). Fibrotic changes were fewer and subserosal thickness in liver and intestine were smaller in CH + PFD group with statistical significance (p < 0.1).We concluded that PFD markedly inhibited or prevented fibrotic changes in the experimental sclerosing peritonitis induced by CH.