title: Recovery of gastrointestinal motility from post-operative ileus in dogs: effects of Leu13-motilin (KW-5139) and prostaglandin F2 alpha.
abstract: Cyclical motor activity of the gastrointestinal tract, normally occurring during the interdigestive period in several mammals, is disrupted in the post-operative ileus. We determined the recovery from the disappearance of cyclical motor activity, from the stomach to the colon, in dogs after laparotomy with the force transducers. Moreover, we examined the effects of Leu13-motilin (KW-5139) and prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2 alpha), administered in the early post-operative period, on the gastrointestinal motility. Following laparotomy, the cyclical motor activity reappeared firstly in the ileum and the colon, then in the jejunum and the duodenum, and finally in the stomach. The reappearance time of the phase III contractions in the stomach was 105.8 +/- 10.6 h (n = 4). In the early post-operative period, KW-5139 (0.5 microgram kg-1, i.v.) induced phase-III-like contractions, whereas PGF2 alpha (50 micrograms kg-1, i.v.) induced simultaneously occurring contractions over the whole gastrointestine. The treatment with KW-5139 (0.5 microgram kg-1, i.v.) four times (twice daily on the first and the second post-operative day) significantly (P < 0.05) shortened the time required to recover the phase III contractions in the stomach (64.2 +/- 2.2 h, n = 4), whereas that with PGF2 alpha (50 micrograms kg-1, i.v.) four times did not (111.3 +/- 17.2 h, n = 4). The present results indicate that, after laparotomy, the cyclical motor activity recovers faster in the distal intestine than in the proximal intestine and the stomach, and that KW-5139, but not PGF2 alpha, shortens the reappearance time of the phase III activity in the stomach.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd, Shizuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yokoyama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kitazawa
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takasaki
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ishii
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karasawa
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D015237:Dinoprost / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004285:Dogs; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility / Q000187:drug effects*; D006728:Hormones / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D009037:Motilin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011897:Random Allocation; D013268:Stimulation, Chemical
chemical_list: D006728:Hormones; D009037:Motilin; C013087:13-Leu-motilin; D015237:Dinoprost