Inhibitory actions of desacetylation products of phenacetin and paracetamol on prostaglandin synthetases in neuronal and glial cell lines and rat renal medulla |
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Authors: | Franz v Bruchhausen Joachim Baumann |
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Institution: | Pharmakologisches Institut der Freien Universität Berlin, Thielallee 69/73, D-1000 Berlin 33, Germany |
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Abstract: | The inhibitory actions of phenacetin and paracetamol and of their desacetylation products on prostaglandin synthesis were studied on enzyme preparations originating from a neuronal cell line (mouse neuroblastoma, clone N2A), a glial cell line (rat astrocytoma, clone C6) and rat renal medulla. All compounds tested inhibited cultured cell and kidney prostaglandin synthetases to similar extents. p-Phenetidin and p-aminophenol, the desacetylated metabolites of phenacetin and paracetamol, were either 7–10 times or 4 times more potent than paracetamol. Thus, p-phenetidin inhibited prostaglandin synthesis as efficaciously as did acetylsalicylic acid. The possible roles of p-phenetidin as the active metabolite of phenacetin for cyclo-oxygenase inhibition in brain and of phenacetin as an organ pro-drug are discussed. |
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