title: Pancreatic exocrine studies in intact animals: historic and current methods.
abstract: This report presents a review of the historic and current methods for performing pancreatic exocrine studies in intact animals. Special emphasis is given to the various surgical procedures--pancreatic fistulas, duodenal pouches, and duodenal fistulas--and practice of collecting pancreatic secretion in dogs. Procedures in other animal species--rat, cat, pig, rabbit, cattle, sheep, and horse--also are specified. The advantages and disadvantages, as well as the indications and limitations of the distinct methods, are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine IV, (Gastroenterology), University Hospital of Heidelberg at Mannheim, Germany.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Niebergall-Roth
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Teyssen
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Singer
mesh_terms: D000820:Animal Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D002417:Cattle; D004285:Dogs; D004378:Duodenal Diseases / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary; D005402:Fistula / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary; D006736:Horses; D010179:Pancreas / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology* / Q000601:surgery; D010185:Pancreatic Fistula / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary; D011817:Rabbits; D051381:Rats; D012756:Sheep; D013522:Surgery, Veterinary / Q000379:methods; D013552:Swine