[Hydroelactic and ecbolic of piprozoline on basal bile-pancreatic secretion in rats]

In male conscious rats provided with a new type of biliary-pancreatic fistula, the effects on basal bile-pancreatic secretion by piprozoline were analyzed when infused intraduodenally superimposed on a "plateau" reached by three previous collection periods of 30 minutes each. Different doses: 25, 50, 100 and 200 mg were evaluated at random during the first 48 hs. of fistula. The secretion evoked by the intraduodenal piprosoline's solvent, propilenglicol, was used as a control reference. The analysis of the percentage secretory changes elicited by piprozoline in respect to the "plateau" put in evidence that this agent exerts a preferential hydrelatic influence namely due to a significant increase in volume. The smallest dose, 25 mg/kg induces a peak volume increase of 30%. The higher dose, 100 and 200 mg/kg give origin to a higher and more sustained response, with peak values of around 70%. Protein and lipase output are also stimulated, but due to a high inter-animal variability the percentage changes are in the borderline of a significant level. It is postulated that piprozoline exerts its influences on basal bile-pancreatic secretion through a stimulation of the hepatic and pancreatic acinar cells and of both hepatic and pancreatic ductal systems. The main mediator of these changes trig by piprozoline would be peptides of the secretin family and duodeno-hepatic and duodeno-pancreatic reflexes. Further clarification through tests in either atropinized or vagotomyzed animals is suggested.