title: Stimulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion in conscious rats by cerebral somatostatin-28. Role of neurohumoral pathways.
abstract: The central nervous system effects of somatostatin-28 on proximal duodenal bicarbonate secretion were studied in freely moving rats. Cerebroventricular administration of somatostatin-28 (0.2-2.0 nmol) significantly stimulated duodenal bicarbonate secretion in a dose-dependent fashion. Somatostatin-28 was approximately twice as effective as somatostatin-14. Intravenous administration of somatostatin-28 or somatostatin-14 did not significantly alter the bicarbonate response. Ganglionic blockade with chlorisondamine and truncal vagotomy abolished the stimulatory effect of somatostatin-28 while bretylium, naloxone, indomethacin, and adrenalectomy did not. Furthermore, atropine methylnitrate significantly attenuated and the vasoactive intestinal peptide antagonist 4Cl-D-Phe6, Leu17-vasoactive intestinal peptide abolished the bicarbonate response produced by cerebroventricular somatostatin-28. In contrast, hypophysectomy and pretreatment with the vasopressin V1-receptor antagonist [1-deaminopenicillamine, 2-(0-methyl)Tyr, 8-Arg]-vasopressin significantly enhanced the bicarbonate response produced by cerebroventricular somatostatin-28. These findings indicate that somatostatin-28 acts within the central nervous system to stimulate duodenal bicarbonate secretion in freely moving rats via vagal efferents by release of vasoactive intestinal peptide and, in part, by a muscarinic pathway and not by catecholamine, opiate, or prostaglandin release.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lenz
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Forquignon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001639:Bicarbonates / Q000378:metabolism*; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D004386:Duodenum / Q000378:metabolism*; D004525:Efferent Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D011498:Protein Precursors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013004:Somatostatin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D053561:Somatostatin-28; D013268:Stimulation, Chemical; D014630:Vagus Nerve / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D001639:Bicarbonates; D011498:Protein Precursors; D013004:Somatostatin; D053561:Somatostatin-28