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Cytoprotective agents (eg, misoprostol) may be effective in treating the nausea associated with mucosal erosion secondary to NSAIDs.
Capsaicin's use in the treatment of chronic pain is due to an analgesic effect that is explained by capsaicin's action of depletion of stores of substance P from primary sensory neurons as a consequence of the reduced production of prostaglandin [ 39 60 ] . Capsaicin's antiphlogistic activity is due to the "counter-irritant effect"; which means that a local irritant effect exerts an additional more remote antiinflammatory effect [ 60 ] . This is explained by a liberation of corticoids under the influence of certain cutivisceral reflexes [ 60 ] . The counter-irritant effect on the gastric mucosa also occurs because capsaicin stimulates production of the cytoprotective prostaglandin E 2 [ 60 ] . Capsaicin produces analgesic and antiinflammatory effects because it inhibits both 5-lipoxygenase and cycoloxygenase [ 39 ] . A 10 g human ingestion of red pepper stimulated carbohydrate oxidation [ 62 ] . This may explain why the Chocó Indians used it to give their hunting dogs more "energy" [ 25 ] .
With the exception of vitamin C, the potency of these antioxidants as cytoprotective (anti-apoptotic) agents, appears to exceed their inherent ability to quench the specific oxidant stimulus.
Similar reductions in apoptosis were observed in IEC-18 cells, although in contrast to AGS cells differences between antioxidants in their cytoprotective actions were not significant (Table 1).
This is evident when one evaluates the concentrations required to achieve anticancer, cytoprotective actions in vitro [ 19 21 25 26 27 ] . More recently in the Apc minmouse model of familial adenomatous polyposis, a condition with a massive induction of polyps in the gastrointestinal tract, green tea extracts reduced polyp load and potentiated the effects of sulindac, a cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor used to treat gastrointestinal cancer [ 32 ] . This further affirms the potential of this strategy in managing disorders characterized by epithelial cell death and transformation.
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