Bile-fat relationships in gastric secretory inhibition and bile flow stimulation

The effect of intraduodenal infusion of olive oil, bile, or a mixture of olive oil and bile on pentagastrin-stimulated gastric secretion, bile flow, and serum immunoreactive secretin levels was studied in dogs. Bile alone had no effect on gastric secretion, but the mixture of bile and olive oil induced prompt, statistically significant gastric secretory inhibition. Bile had the early choleretic effect that would be expected to result from the absorption of bile salts, whereas the bile--olive oil mixture brought about a delayed amd much greater increase in bile flow rates. None of the agents given intraduodenally produced a significant change in the serum secretin level. Intravenous pentagastrin infusion caused a significant increase in rate of bile flow.