title: Endogenous neurotensin facilitates enterohepatic bile acid circulation by enhancing intestinal uptake in rats.
abstract: Initial studies on the digestive hormone neurotensin (NT) showing that intestinal NT mRNA expression and blood levels were altered in rats fed chow containing bile acid (BA) and the BA chelator cholestyramine led us to investigate the role of NT in the enterohepatic circulation of BA. In fasted, anesthetized rats with common bile ducts cannulated for bile collection, intravenous NT infusion (10 pmol. kg(-1). min(-1)) enhanced BA output relative to control over 3 h in animals administered donor bile into the duodenum (30 microl/min). This suggested that the effect of NT was on the return of BA from the intestine to the liver, which is rate determining in the normal process. In rats prepared as described above and administered [(3)H]taurocholate ([(3)H]TC; 5 mM, 1 ml) duodenally, NT infusion (3-10 pmol x kg(-1) x min(-1)) increased the [(3)H]TC recovery rate in bile approximately twofold, whereas sulfated CCK-8 (12-50 pmol x kg(-1) x min(-1)) had no effect. To investigate the roles of endogenous NT and CCK, we administered [(3)H]TC into the rat duodenum or lower jejunum and tested the effect of the NT antagonist SR-48692 (2 nmol x kg(-1) x min(-1)) or CCK-A antagonist lorglumide (100 nmol x kg(-1) x min(-1)). SR-48692 reduced the [(3)H]TC recovery rate by congruent with 50% and congruent with 24% in the duodenum and jejunum, respectively, whereas lorglumide had no effect. These results suggest that NT or a similar peptide is an endogenous regulator of enterohepatic BA cycling, which acts by enhancing BA uptake in the intestine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655-0127, USA.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Gui
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Dobner
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Carraway
mesh_terms: D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D000818:Animals; D001646:Bile / Q000502:physiology; D001647:Bile Acids and Salts / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D001652:Bile Ducts / Q000601:surgery; D002614:Chelating Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D004764:Enterohepatic Circulation; D005217:Fat Emulsions, Intravenous / Q000008:administration & dosage; D005772:Gastrointestinal Transit / Q000187:drug effects; D007408:Intestinal Absorption / Q000187:drug effects; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism*; D008026:Ligation; D008297:Male; D009496:Neurotensin / Q000097:blood / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012844:Sincalide / Q000494:pharmacology; D013656:Taurocholic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D014316:Tritium
chemical_list: D001647:Bile Acids and Salts; D002614:Chelating Agents; D005217:Fat Emulsions, Intravenous; D014316:Tritium; D009496:Neurotensin; D013656:Taurocholic Acid; D012844:Sincalide