Avaliação dos efeitos antiinflamatórios dos antidepressivos clomipramina, amitriptilina e maprotilina

• Autor(a) principal: Gurgel, José Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2002
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/2424
• topic: Amitriptilina; Maprotilina

In the present study it was evaluated the effects of antidepressants amitriptiline (amt), clormipramine (clm) and maprotiline (mpt) in the inflammatory reaction. Male Wistar rats, 150-200g, were divided into five groups (n=6) in experiments of hind paw edema (HE) and neutrophils migration (NM) in subcutaneous air pouches. Amt, mpt (v.o.) and clm (i,p), 10, 30 and 90 mg/kg, were administrated before the inflammatory stimulus carragenin (Cg-500 µg/paw), fMLP (10 –6M) or dextran (Dx-300 µg/paw). Paw edema was measured with a hydroplethysmometer (Hugo Basile 7140 Plethysmometer) immediately before ( time equal zero ) and 1, 2, 3 and 4 h after the Cg or Dx challenges. The increase in paw volume (edema volume) was obtained by subtracting the paw volume measured before stimulus injection. The results demonstrate that the antidepressants induce a dose dependent reduction in the HE induced by Cg and Dx. Amt in largest dose used, inhibited the Cg-induced HE by 51,34% (p< 0,05), and the Dx-induced HE by 49% (p<0,05). Clm, in biggest and smallest dose, inhibited Cg-induced HE by 100% (p<0,001) and 42,45% (p< 0,05), respectively, and by 97,26% (p< 0,001) and 36% (p<0,05) the Dx-induced HE, respectively. The largest dose of mpt inhibited the Cg-induced HE by 60,9% (p<0,05) and at the two greatest dose, in decreasing order, inhibited the Dx-induced HE, by 57,49% (p<0,01) and 34,42% (p<0,05), respectively. Additionally, amt e clm inhibited the MN in a dose-dependently manner, in the sixth hour after Cg administration. Amt in largest dose (90 mg/kg/v.o.) inhibited the Cg-induced NM by 49,19% (p<0,05) and by 96,31% (p<0,001) the fMLP-induced NM. The mpt (40 mg/kg/i.p.) inhibited the Cg-induced NM by 49,26% (p<0,001), and by 92,38% (p<0,001) the fMLP-induced NM. In the same way, clm at the dose 90, 30 e 10 mg/kg (i.p.) inhibited Cg-induced NM by 76,46% (p< 0.001), 64,4% (p<0,01) and 49,13% (p<0,05), respectively, but the fMLP-induced NM was inhibited just by the biggest dose by 100% (p<0,001). We observed that clm (90 mg/kg/i.p.) and the mpt (40 mg/kg/i.p) completely reverted the mast cell degranulation induced by the compound 48/80. Amt (90 mg/kg/v.o.) also significantly reverted the mast cell degranulation by 90,19% (p<0,001). These data suggest that amt, clm e mpt have a significant antiinflammatory activity demonstrated by their inhibitory effects on NM and edema.