The action of 5‐hydroxytryptamine, 5‐hydroxytryptophan and reserpine on intestinal peristalsis in anaesthetized guinea‐pigs
The action of 5‐hydroxytryptamine, 5‐hydroxytryptophan and reserpine on intestinal peristalsis in anaesthetized guinea‐pigs
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5-羟色胺、5-羟色氨酸和利血平对麻醉豚鼠肠道蠕动的作用
DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.1959.sp006176
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发表时间:
1959
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A. Crema
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作者:
E. Bülbring;A. Crema
METHODSNormal guinea-pigs were anaesthetized by intravenous injection of chloralose-urethane (0.6% chloralose in 10% urethane), 1 ml./100 g, one hour before the experiment. Reserpine-treated guinea-pigs tolerated only half of the normal anaesthetic dose without respiratory arrest, and in order to avoid this they were injected subcutaneously. As surgical anaesthesia was usually not obtained the skin of the abdomen was infiltrated with procaine. This had the additional advantage of preventing cardiac fibrillation which was found to be a cause of death in these animals. The reserpine-treated guinea-pigs were given artificial respiration throughout the experiment. The experimental arrangement for perfusing one loop of intestine in vivo has been described previously (Biilbring & Crema, 1959). In the present investigation two loops of intestine were used in many experiments. The animal was put on its back on a heated table and warmed from above by an infra-red lamp keeping the temperature constant at 380 C. The abdomen was opened in the mid line and two pieces of ileum of 5-8 cm length-were cut, leaving their mesentery and blood supply intact. They were covered with muslin and kept moist by a constant drip of warm Tyrode. One piece served as control, and in different experiments it was alternately more oral or aboral than the otherpiece. Fluid was passed through the lumen of both loops. They were connected to the same reservoir, but isolated from each other by a pair of valves so that the perfusion pressure for the two loops was the same, but the contractions of one loop could not change the pressure in the other.