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Assessing the Secretory Capacity of Pancreatic Acinar Cells
Published on: August 28, 2014
Effect of pancreatic juice diversion on secretin release in rats
1Isaac Gordon Center for Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, Genesee Hospital, Rochester, New York.
Abstract:
We investigated a possible role of secretin in the mechanism of exocrine pancreatic secretion after exclusion of pancreatic juice from the intestine in anesthetized rats. Diversion of pancreatic juice from the duodenum resulted in a significant increase in plasma secretin concentration from 0.76 +/- 0.39 pM at 0 time to 3.09 +/- 0.30 pM at 4 h after diversion. This increase in secretin coincided with a steady but significant increase in pancreatic secretion of volume and bicarbonate. Intraduodenal administration of fresh pancreatic juice completely reversed the diversion-induced increases in both plasma secretin and pancreatic secretion. Intravenous injection of a rabbit-antisecretin serum blocked the increase of pancreatic secretion during diversion of pancreatic juice from the duodenum. Thus, we conclude that endogenous secretin is involved in a hormonal mechanism regulating increased pancreatic exocrine secretion in pancreatic juice-diverted rats.
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