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Effects of Aspirin on Nitric Oxide Formation and De Novo Protein Synthesis by RINm5F Cells and Rat Islets

Guim Kwon, Jeanette R. Hill, John A. Corbett and Michael L. McDaniel
Molecular Pharmacology September 1997, 52 (3) 398-405; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.52.3.398
Guim Kwon
Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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Aspirin and aspirin-like drugs are the most commonly indicated agents for the treatment of inflammation. Mechanisms of action for these drugs, however, are not clearly understood. In this study, we examined the effects of aspirin on production of nitric oxide (NO), a proinflammatory mediator, and show that aspirin inhibits NO production by transformed pancreatic β cells (RINm5F) and rat islets in a concentration-dependent manner with an IC50 value of ∼3 mm. Therapeutic concentrations of aspirin (1–5 mm) that block NO production affected neither nuclear factor-κB activation nor inducible NO synthase (iNOS) mRNA transcription but potently inhibited iNOS protein expression by both RINm5F cells and rat islets. The effects of aspirin on islet function were examined by measuring glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in the presence of various concentrations of aspirin. Aspirin (1–5 mm) did not affect insulin secretion at basal or glucose-stimulated conditions, whereas higher concentrations of aspirin (10–20 mm) significantly increased basal insulin secretion. Aspirin at high concentrations of 10 and 20 mminhibited de novo protein synthesis as demonstrated by inhibition of [35S]methionine incorporation into total islet protein and by inhibition of rabbit reticulocyte expression by Brome mosaic virus mRNA, suggesting that inhibition of iNOS expression at these high concentrations of aspirin may be due to the impairment of the translational machinery. These findings indicate that inhibition of iNOS expression and NO production may explain, in part, the beneficial effects of aspirin as an anti-inflammatory agent at therapeutic concentrations, whereas inhibition of de novo protein synthesis may possibly explain clinical and side effects of aspirin in the inflamed tissues and organs such as stomach and kidney that may accumulate high concentrations of aspirin.

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    • Received October 28, 1996.
    • Accepted May 6, 1997.
  • Send reprint requests to: Dr. Michael L. McDaniel, Department of Pathology, Box 8118, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110-8118. E-mail:mcdaniel{at}pathology.wustl.edu

  • ↵1 Current affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63104.

  • This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants DK06181 and T32-DK07296 and a Lucille P. Markey Pathway Postdoctoral Fellowship.

  • The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
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Effects of Aspirin on Nitric Oxide Formation and De Novo Protein Synthesis by RINm5F Cells and Rat Islets

Guim Kwon, Jeanette R. Hill, John A. Corbett and Michael L. McDaniel
Molecular Pharmacology September 1, 1997, 52 (3) 398-405; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.52.3.398

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Effects of Aspirin on Nitric Oxide Formation and De Novo Protein Synthesis by RINm5F Cells and Rat Islets

Guim Kwon, Jeanette R. Hill, John A. Corbett and Michael L. McDaniel
Molecular Pharmacology September 1, 1997, 52 (3) 398-405; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.52.3.398
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