Ethanol → Arachidonic Acid

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Rats receiving intragastric pretreatment with PL solution only had 3 hours after ethanol macroscopic hemorrhagic lesions involving 35.8±2% of glandular mucosal area. Treatment with oleic acid did not change significantly occurrence of mucosal hemorrhagic lesions--29.1±3%. Rats receiving pretreatment with 120 mM and 240 mM LLC had significantly decreased macroscopic hemorrhagic lesions--6.5±1% and 1.3±0.5% respectively (p<0.01) 3 hours after ethanol. Macroscopic protection rat gastric mucosa against ethanol was similar to that afforded by arachidonic acid except for the presence of marked edema in the forestomach (containing squamous, paraepidermoidal epithelium) 3 hours after ethanol in group pretreated with linoleic acid (C).

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