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  • Title: The effects of non-steroidal inhibitors of phospholipase A2 on leukotriene and histamine release from human and guinea-pig lung.
    Author: Kench JG, Seale JP, Temple DM, Tennant C.
    Journal: Prostaglandins; 1985 Aug; 30(2):199-208. PubMed ID: 2413502.
    Abstract:
    The effects of chloroquine and mepacrine were determined on the release of slow reacting substances (leukotrienes) from lung fragments in vitro. These drugs have been shown in a variety of tissues to inhibit phospholipase A2, and thus to reduce the availability of arachidonate, which is a substrate for leukotriene biosynthesis. Leukotriene and histamine release from unsensitized human lung was stimulated by calcium ionophore A23187, and from actively sensitized guinea-pig lung, by ovalbumin. Chloroquine (10 microM and 100 microM) significantly inhibited leukotriene release in lung from both species, and at 100 microM also inhibited histamine release. Mepacrine (10 microM) inhibited leukotriene release in human lung and at 100 microM in guinea-pig lung. The effects of chloroquine (100 microM) on leukotriene release were counteracted by the presence of arachidonic acid (10 microM), which suggests that chloroquine had impaired the availability of arachidonate. It seems probable that chloroquine and mepacrine inhibit leukotriene release by inhibition of phospholipase A2 in lung.
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