RESUMO
Ascites is one of the most severe complications of cirrhosis with portal hypertension. Since mast cells by type 2 immunity could be involved in the production of portal hypertensive ascites, we are studying the effectiveness of Ketotifen administration, a mast cell stabilizer, to modulate the production of interleukin-13, a type-2 associated cytokine, as well as calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), one important regulator of its production, in the ascitic fluid of microsurgical extrahepatic cholestatic rats. The increased IL-13 and CGRP release in the ascitic fluid of the rats with obstructive cholestasis and its significant reduction after both, prophylactic plus therapeutic and delayed therapeutic oral administration of Ketotifen, allows for proposing that mast cells could play an important role in the etiopathogeny of portal hypertensive ascites
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