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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2011 May 13;23(7):e294–e308. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2011.01721.x

Figure 4.

Figure 4

The selective sst2 agonist but not the selective sst1 and sst4 agonists injected intracisternally prevents the surgery-induced decrease of acyl ghrelin levels. Overnight fasted rats were injected i.c. under short isoflurane anesthesia with sst1 agonist (A), sst2 agonist (B) or sst4 agonist (C, 1 μg/rat in 10 μl ddH2O) or vehicle (10 μl ddH2O) and underwent abdominal surgery or sham procedure afterwards. Animals were placed back in their home cages without access to food and water. Blood was obtained by cardiac puncture at 50 min post procedure, processed using the RAPID method and circulating acyl levels assessed by radioimmunoassay. (Each bar represents the mean ± sem of number of rats indicated at the bottom of the columns. * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01 and *** P < 0.001 vs. vehicle/sham; # P < 0.05 and ## P < 0.01 vs. treatment/sham; ++ P < 0.01 vs. treatment/surgery.