Abstract
We investigated the effect of N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), an unspecific nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor, and aminoguanidine, a relatively selective inhibitor of the inducible NOS enzyme, on both Gram-negative lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and Gram-positive muramyl dipeptide (MDP) fever in guinea pigs. Intraperitoneal injection of either 10 mg/kg L-NAME or 25 mg/kg aminoguanidine inhibited the febrile response to an intramuscular injection of 50 μg/kg MDP. However, LPS fever (20 μg/kg) was inhibited only by L-NAME. The development of LPS fever may therefore occur independently of the synthesis of nitric oxide by the inducible NOS enzyme, while MDP fever may involve synthesis of nitric oxide by both the inducible and the constitutively expressed NOS enzymes.
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