| Abstract: | In the study, we examined the gastric mucosal susceptibility for ulcerogenic effect of indometacin at different time points of streptozotocin-induced diabetes development. Indometacin was injected at ulcerogenic dose (35 mg/kg, s. c.) on days 3, 7 and 30 after streptozotocin administration (60 mg/kg, i. v.) or its vehicle to fasted rats. Typical diabetic hyperglicaemia was observed as early as in 3 days after streptozotocin administration and accompanied with enhanced mucosal susceptibility for indometacin as compared with that of control group. In 7 and 30 days after streptozotocin administration, when hyperglicaemia was still present, the average areas of indometacin-induced erosion increased 2- and 3-fold, respectively, as compared with those observed in 3 day after streptozotocin administration. The data obtained demonstrate that gastric mucosal susceptibility for the ulcerogenic effect of indometacin is increased at the early stages of diabetes development and then aggravates along with further development of the pathological condition. |
