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. 1995 Mar 28;92(7):2553–2557. doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.7.2553

Pancreatic digestive enzyme secretion in the rabbit: rapid cyclic variations in enzyme composition.

J W Adelson 1, R Clarizio 1, J A Coutu 1
PMCID: PMC42256  PMID: 7535925

Abstract

The role and mechanism of nonparallel pancreatic secretion of digestive enzymes, in which enzyme proportions change in rapidly regulated fashion, remain controversial. Secretion was collected from male 2.2-kg New Zealand rabbits in 5-min intervals for 3 h under basal conditions or constant stimulation with cholecystokinin (CCK; 0.1 microgram per kg per h i.v.) or methacholine chloride (MCh; 40 micrograms per kg per h i.v.). Both CCK and MCh produced an 8-fold stimulation of protein output. Enzymes were separated by SDS/PAGE and quantitated by densitometry of Coomassie blue-stained gels. Under both basal conditions and constant MCh infusion, rapid neurosecretory-like 12-min cyclic changes occurred in the proportions of amylase, lipase I, chymotrypsinogen, and trypsinogen. During constant infusion their percentages changed as much as 10-fold, and their ratios cycled by as much as 30-fold. The mean percentage for the entire infusion period for lipase I declined > 25% with CCK or MCh, for amylase it rose approximately 30%, and for chymotrypsinogen and trypsinogen it doubled (for all, P < 0.05). CCK and MCh elicited subtly but significantly different mean enzyme percentages and enzyme ratios (P < 0.05) for amylase, chymotrypsinogen, and trypsinogen; these differences were also confirmed by regression and correlation analyses. The changes in enzyme percentages and ratios were explicitly consistent with secretagogue-caused shifts in the intrapancreatic enzyme secretory sources. Nonparallel secretion of digestive enzymes occurs routinely, even during constant stimulation, and is due to cyclic neurosecretory-like secretion from heterogeneous intrapancreatic sources.

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