[Effect of vitamin E on the functional state of the duodenal muscles]

The influence of different doses of vitamin E (4 and 8 mg) on the function of duodenal smooth muscles in sandwarts (Arenaria L) was studied. The method of electrographic registration of spontaneous activity of smooth muscles with an electroencephalograph was used. Of the dose of 4 mg characteristic changes in the electroduodenogram, viz. a higher oscillation amplitude, prevalence of slow monophasic and disappearance of rapid waves were observed. Features specific for the action of vitamin E in a dose of 8 mg, i.e. predominance in the electroduodenogram of low-amplitude slow monophasic and rapid biphasic oscillatins, were elicited. Sexual differences in the action of vitamin E on the bioelectric activity of duodenal smooth muscles were discovered.