title: Kinetics of atropine inhibition of pentagastrin-stimulated H+, electrolyte, and pepsin secretion in the dog.
abstract: The effects of atropine on pentagastrin-stimulated gastric secretion of water, H, Cl, Na, K, and pepsin were determined by kinetic analysis of dose-response studies in 5 dogs with esophagostomy and gastric cannula. First a dose-response study was done using 7 doses of pentagastrin (1-6 mug/kg hr), each dose given by I.V. infusion for 4 hr at a separate time. The same series of doses was used with atropine sulfate 10 mug/kg hr as background. Atropine inhibited pentagastrin-stimulated secretion competively with a dose ratio change of 20. In a third set of studies pentagastrin was infused alone for 4 hrs in the dose of 1.5 mug/kg hr and then with each of 7 doses of atropine (0.625-40 mug/kg hr), each dose used separately. Atropine competitively inhibited water, H, Cl, and K secretion, with Ki (dose of atropine giving 50% inhibition) of 1.0 mug/kg hr. Pepsin secretion was much more strongly inhibited than acid secretion by atropine with Ki 0.27 mug/kg hr and the inhibition was uncompetitive. Calculated maximal inhibition of H+ secretion by atropine was 89% and of pepsin 95%. Furthermore the shape of the response to pentagastrin was altered by atropine so that the peak response was delayed to the third and fourth hour of pentagastrin infusion.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001285:Atropine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002712:Chlorides / Q000378:metabolism; D004285:Dogs; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004573:Electrolytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism*; D006859:Hydrogen / Q000378:metabolism*; D007477:Ions; D007700:Kinetics; D010418:Pentagastrin / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010434:Pepsin A / Q000378:metabolism*; D011188:Potassium / Q000378:metabolism; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002712:Chlorides; D004573:Electrolytes; D007477:Ions; D001285:Atropine; D006859:Hydrogen; D012964:Sodium; D010434:Pepsin A; D010418:Pentagastrin; D011188:Potassium