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Tengku Mohamad, Tengku Azam Shah and Akhtar, Muhammad Nadeem and Khalivulla, Shaik Ibrahim and Perimal, Enoch Kumar and Khalid, Mohamed Hanief and Hui, Ming Ong and Zareen, Seema and Omar Farouk, Ahmad Akira and Israf Ali, Daud Ahmad and Lajis, Md. Nordin and Sulaiman, Mohd Roslan
(2011)
Possible participation of nitric oxide/cyclic guanosine monophosphate/protein kinase C/ATP-sensitive K + channels pathway in the systemic antinociception of flavokawin B.
Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, 108 (6).
pp. 400-405.
ISSN 1742-7851; ESSN: 1742-7843
Abstract
The possible mechanisms of action in the antinociceptive activity induced by systemic administration (intraperitoneal, i.p.) of flavokawin B (FKB) were analysed using chemical models of nociception in mice. It was demonstrated that i.p. administration of FKB to the mice at 0.3, 1.0, 3.0 and 10 mg/kg produced significant dose-related reduction in the number of abdominal constrictions. The antinociception induced by FKB in the acetic acid test was significantly attenuated by i.p. pre-treatment of mice with l-arginine, the substrate for nitric oxide synthase or glibenclamide, the ATP-sensitive K+ channel inhibitor, but was enhanced by methylene blue, the non-specific guanylyl cyclase inhibitor. FKB also produced dose-dependent inhibition of licking response caused by intraplantar injection of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, a protein kinase C activator (PKC). Together, these data indicate that the NO/cyclic guanosine monophosphate/PKC/ATP-sensitive K+ channel pathway possibly participated in the antinociceptive action induced by FKB.
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