ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Effect of sodium bicarbonate or hydrochloric acid intragastric administration on gut-derived endotoxemia in rats receiving cyclophosphamide myeloablative conditioning

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1 Golikov Research Clinical Center of Toxicology of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2 State Scientific Research Test Institute of the Military Medicine of Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Tatiana B. Pechurina
Lesoparkovaya, 4, Saint-Petersburg, 195043, Russia; ur.tsil@97tat

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Author contribution: Vakunenkova OA — experimental part of the study; Zolotoverkhaya EA — blood biochemistry testing; Pechurina TB — tissue biochemistry testing; Schäfer TV — experimental part of the study, data processing and visualization, developing the experimental model; Ivnitsky JuJu — research design, developing the experimental model, data interpretation and discussion. All authors contributed to discussion, manuscript writing and editing.

Compliance with ethical standards: the study was compliant with the principles of bioethics adopted by the European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes.

Received: 2024-05-01 Accepted: 2024-06-26 Published online: 2024-06-30
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Toxic effects of the myeloablative cyclophosphamide (CP) doses include damage to the gastrointestinal tract. This is manifested by gastrointestinal stasis, cytostatic drug-induced damage to the small intestinal mucosa, and acute gut-derived endotoxemia. The study was aimed to identify causal relationships between gastrointestinal stasis, enterocytopenia, and acute gut-derived endotoxemia in the rat model of the CP myeloablative conditioning. We assessed the effects of the intragastrically administered 0.48 М sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) solution or the 0.1 М hydrochloric acid (HCl) solution on the indicators of gastrointestinal stasis, enterocytopenia, portal blood levels of endotoxin, ammonia, urea, and urinary indican excretion. The stomach overfilled with chyme, decreased alkaline phosphatase and cholinesterase activity in the small intestinal tissues, 4.4-fold increased endotoxin levels, 4.6-fold increased urea levels, twofold increased portal blood plasma creatinine levels, and twofold increased urinary indican excretion were observed three days after intravenous administration of CP in a dose of 390 mg/kg. Intragastric administration of NaHCO3 or HCl partially prevented gastric stasis, but not acute gut-derived endotoxemia. Administration of NaHCO3, not HCl, prevented enterocytopenia in the duodenum. Acute gut-derived endotoxemia resulted mainly from the more intense release of the cecal microflora waste products into blood. Testing the use of sodium bicarbonate intragastric administration combined with the enteral detoxification and/or options for suppression of colonic microflora vegetation for prevention of the myeloablative cytostatic therapy complications is promising.

Keywords: cyclophosphamide, gastric stasis, sodium bicarbonate, enterocytopenia, myeloablation, hydrochloric acid, endotoxemia

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