Unit for Research on Addictive Drugs, University of Aberdeen, Marischal College, Aberdeen, AB9 1AS, U.K.
Abstract:
When myenteric plexus-longitudnal muscle preparations of the guinea-pig small intestine are simulated electrically in the presence of cycloheximide there is a decrease in teh content of enkephalins which is taken to be due to their release. With supramaximal stimuli, the release per pulse is similar at 1 and 10 Hz but it is lower with submaximal than with maximal stimuli. Met-enkephalin is more readily released than Leu-enkephalin.