Effect of galanin on endocrine secretions from the isolated perfused rat stomach and pancreas |
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| Authors: | Y N Kwok C B Verchere C H McIntosh J C Brown |
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| Affiliation: | Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. |
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| Abstract: | Nerves containing galanin immunoreactivity have been shown to be present in the stomach and pancreas. The present experiments were designed to test the effect of galanin on the release of gastric somatostatin-like immunoreactivity (SLI) and immunoreactive gastrin (IR-G), pancreatic SLI and immunoreactive insulin (IR-I) from the isolated perfused rat stomach and pancreas respectively. Galanin (2 X 10(-10)-5 X 10(-8) M) inhibited gastric SLI and IR-G release dose dependently. At a concentration of 10(-8) M, galanin also suppressed IR-I release stimulated by gastric inhibitory polypeptide (2 X 10(-10) M) in the presence of 8.9 X 10(-3) M glucose. Pancreatic SLI release under this condition was not altered. Thus the present study suggests that galanin might be involved in the neural regulation of gastric and pancreatic endocrine secretions. |
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