XB-ART-24170
Life Sci
1992 Jan 01;5118:1453-7. doi: 10.1016/0024-3205(92)90540-6.
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Niflumic and flufenamic acids are potent inhibitors of chloride secretion in mammalian airway.
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Effects of niflumic acid (NFA) and flufenamic acid (FFA), the two nonsteroid anti-inflammatory agents recently reported to inhibit Cl- current in Xenopus oocytes, were examined in cultured monolayers of dog and cow trachea. Both agents showed potent inhibition to the short-circuit current (Isc), an index of magnitude of transepithelial Cl- secretion, with values of Ki of 0.02 (for NFA) and 0.06 (for FFA) mM, respectively. The sensitivity sequence of Isc to the Cl- channel inhibitors tested was NFA > FFA > diphenylamine-2-carboxylate (DPC) > anthracene-9-carboxylate (A9C). Thus, NFA and FFA are so far the most potent commercially available Cl- channel inhibitors tested in Cl(-)-secreting epithelia. The sensitivity sequence of 36Cl uptake to the above Cl- channel inhibitors in Xenopus laevis oocytes was found to be identical to the cultures of trachea. This seems to imply that the membrane Cl- channels of Xenopus oocytes are functionally similar to that identified in mammalian Cl(-)-secreting epithelia.
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