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. 1983 Sep;342:517–526. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1983.sp014866

The response of the pancreas of the anaesthetized cat to secretin before, during and after reversible vagal blockade.

D Grundy, D Hutson, T Scratcherd
PMCID: PMC1193974  PMID: 6631748

Abstract

Cooling the cervical vagi of the anaesthetized splanchnectomized cat to 2 degrees C caused a 54.4 +/- 8.8% inhibition of pancreatic electrolyte secretion stimulated submaximally with pure secretin. On rewarming the vagi there was a prolonged increase in secretion rate over and above the control rate which existed before cooling. The increase lasted about 90 min. There were no changes in acid/base status due to interference of the lung inflation reflex which could account for the inhibition of secretion and the subsequent rebound. Cold block of the cervical vagi increased the transpancreatic electrical conductance, indicating that vasodilation had occurred and therefore eliminated a vasomotor cause for the inhibition. Electrolyte secretion was also inhibited by bilateral vagal section. Atropine only partially prevented the inhibitory response to vagal cooling. A cholinergic mechanism, therefore, accounted for some but not all of the response to vagal cooling. It is concluded that even in the fasted, anaesthetized animal vagal impulses facilitate the action of secretin on the pancreas. This facilitation is only partially cholinergic; the major part of the response is due to some non-cholinergic transmitter substance. Such a mechanism may be necessary to potentiate the action of the very small amounts of secretin which appear to be released during a meal.

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