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EFFECT OF CIMETIDEME ON THE HEALING OF RESTRAINT‐INDUCED GASTRIC EROSIONS IN THE RAT
Author(s) -
Lee S. P.,
Clarke A. C.,
TasmanJones C.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
clinical and experimental pharmacology and physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1440-1681
pISSN - 0305-1870
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1978.tb00687.x
Subject(s) - cimetidine , medicine , placebo , saline , placebo group , body weight , anesthesia , gastroenterology , surgery , pathology , alternative medicine
SUMMARY 1. Rats after a 24 h restraint developed acute gastric erosions. Cimetidine in a dose of 100 mg/kg body weight was given subcutaneously every 8 h to a group of 150 rats after restraint. A second group received saline subcutaneously (placebo group). 2. Erosions in the placebo group required up to 45 days to heal (median healing time approximately 24 days). Cimetidine treatment reduced the median healing time to approximately 12 days. 3. Cimetidine in this dose promotes healing of acute gastric erosions in the rat induced by restraint.