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Dexamethasone weakens the respiratory effects of pro-inflammatory cytokine TNF-α in rat.

Nina Pavlovna AleksandrovaGalina Anatolevna Danilova
Published in: Respiratory physiology & neurobiology (2024)
The goal of the current study was to identify the role of the glucocorticoids in the respiratory effects of proinflammatory cytokines. For this purpose intravenous injections of TNF-α were used in anesthetized spontaneously breathing rats before and after pretreatment of dexamethasone, a synthetic steroid with predominant glucocorticoid activity. Dexamethasone was injected intraperitoneally at a dose of 1 mg/kg. TNF-α was administrated into the tail vein at a dose of 40 mg/kg. We found that dexamethasone pretreatment eliminated the cytokine-induced increase in pulmonary ventilation and decrease in the hypoxic ventilatory response. Dexamethasone had a pronounced rapid effect on the respiratory activity of TNF-α as early as 30 minutes after administration. Therefore, we assume that this mechanism of action of dexamethasone was non-genomic, associated with the blocking of secondary mediators of the cytokine response.
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