title: Motor effects of indomethacin, morphine or vagal nerve stimulation on the feline small intestine in vivo.
abstract: Some factors known to affect jejunal motility (recorded as volume changes of an intraluminal balloon) were investigated in anaesthetized cats (ether-chloralose) pretreated with guanethidine and atropine. Indomethacin, morphine (both compounds administered systemically) or vagal nerve stimulation elicited jejunal excitatory motor responses. The effect of indomethacin seemed to be independent of cyclooxygenase inhibition and probably did not involve opioid receptors. It is suggested that the spasmogenic stimuli caused jejunal hypermotility by inhibiting tonically active, inhibitory motor neurons that are intrinsic to the gut. Furthermore, when the jenunal tone had been raised by indomethacin or morphine spontaneous relaxations were observed, and these could be mimicked by vagal stimulation. Hexamethonium antagonized these relaxations but did not attenuate the drug-induced jejunal hypermotility.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, University of Göteborg, Sweden.
authors.forename: B I
authors.initials: BI
authors.lastname: Gustafsson
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Delbro
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001241:Aspirin / Q000494:pharmacology; D001341:Autonomic Nervous System / Q000187:drug effects; D002415:Cats; D004008:Diclofenac / Q000494:pharmacology; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005260:Female; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility / Q000187:drug effects*; D007213:Indomethacin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007583:Jejunum / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000294:innervation; D008297:Male; D009020:Morphine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000187:drug effects; D009451:Neuroeffector Junction / Q000187:drug effects; D014630:Vagus Nerve / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D004008:Diclofenac; D009020:Morphine; D001241:Aspirin; D007213:Indomethacin