Component
Prostaglandin E-like activity in cisternal cerebrospinal fluid
Prostaglandin E-like activity in cisternal cerebrospinal fluid. Species, exposure and limitations are retained in each linked claim.
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What acts on it
Prostaglandin E-like activity in cisternal cerebrospinal fluid was usually undetectable or low at normal body temperature and increased, often many-fold, during pyrogen fever irrespective of the route of pyrogen administration, and the antipyretic drugs indomethacin, paracetamol and aspirin injected intraperitoneally during the fever brought down temperature and returned the activity to low levels, with chromatography placing the activity in the zone of the E series prostaglandins, supporting the theory that pyrogens produce fever by increasing prostaglandin synthesis in the preoptic anterior hypothalamic area and that antipyretics of the aspirin type act by inhibiting that synthesis.
Experimental context and source evidence
- evidence_span
- {"source_cache": "artifacts/paracetamol-research/4588122.abstract.txt", "locator": "Indexed abstract; zero-based, end-exclusive Unicode character offsets", "file_sha256": "274f00794352ea4d44e1ef2c2cf46a094d9a03752d7c485a2d6222e519534aa9", "start_char": 0, "end_char": 2254, "text_sha256": "274f00794352ea4d44e1ef2c2cf46a094d9a03752d7c485a2d6222e519534aa9"}
- experimental_model
- Cisternal cerebrospinal fluid sampled from unanaesthetised cats during fever and after antipyretics
- exposure
- Shigella dysenteriae pyrogen given into the third ventricle, cisterna magna or intravenously, with indomethacin, paracetamol and aspirin
- limitations
- Bioassay on a stomach strip rather than direct measurement, and prostaglandin E-like activity rather than identified prostaglandin E2. It is the record that connects fever to central prostaglandin and to this drug.
- nutrient_topic
- Paracetamol research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct clinical effect, and the drug is recorded separately from the metabolites NAPQI and AM404. · Paracetamol
- organism
- Cat
- plain_language
- Fever raises a prostaglandin in the fluid round the brain, and this drug brings both down together.
- primary_references
- [apap-p4588122] Effect of pyrogen and antipyretics on prostaglandin acitvity in cisternal c.s.f. of unanaesthetized cats. (1973). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4588122/ DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1973.sp010346
- tissue_or_cell_type
- Cerebrospinal fluid and hypothalamus
AI-assisted literature curation; primary study URLs and scope retained in the document and extraction. Not publisher full text. · supports · Cisternal cerebrospinal fluid sampled from unanaesthetised cats during fever and after antipyretics · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft
### apap-antipyresis-follows-central-prostaglandin Prostaglandin E-like activity in cisternal cerebrospinal fluid was usually undetectable or low at normal body temperature and increased, often many-fold, during pyrogen fever irrespective of the route of pyrogen administration, and the antipyretic drugs indomethacin, paracetamol and aspirin injected intraperitoneally during the fever brought down temperature and returned the activity to low levels, with chromatography placing the activity in the zone of the E series prostaglandins, supporting the theory that pyrogens produce fever by increasing prostaglandin synthesis in the preoptic anterior hypothalamic area and that antipyretics of the aspirin type act by inhibiting that synthesis. Condition category: normal nutrient_topic: Paracetamol research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct clinical effect, and the drug is recorded separately from the metabolites NAPQI and AM404. plain_language: Fever raises a prostaglandin in the fluid round the brain, and this drug brings both down together. organism: Cat tissue_or_cell_type: Cerebrospinal fluid and hypothalamus experimental_model: Cisternal cerebrospinal fluid sampled from unanaesthetised cats during fever and after antipyretics limitations: Bioassay on a stomach strip rather than direct measurement, and prostaglandin E-like activity rather than identified prostaglandin E2. It is the record that connects fever to central prostaglandin and to this drug. exposure: Shigella dysenteriae pyrogen given into the third ventricle, cisterna magna or intravenously, with indomethacin, paracetamol and aspirin evidence_span: {"source_cache": "artifacts/paracetamol-research/4588122.abstract.txt", "locator": "Indexed abstract; zero-based, end-exclusive Unicode character offsets", "file_sha256": "274f00794352ea4d44e1ef2c2cf46a094d9a03752d7c485a2d6222e519534aa9", "start_char": 0, "end_char": 2254, "text_sha256": "274f00794352ea4d44e1ef2c2cf46a094d9a03752d7c485a2d6222e519534aa9"} [apap-p4588122] Effect of pyrogen and antipyretics on prostaglandin acitvity in cisternal c.s.f. of unanaesthetized cats. (1973). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4588122/ DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1973.sp010346
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