EFFECT OF HISTAMINE ON GASTRIC PEPSINOGEN, PEPSIN SECRETION, AND BLOOD PEPSINOGEN IN GUINEA PIGS

1957 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 729-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Kowalewski

The endocrine and exocrine activity of guinea pig stomach was measured by the determination of pepsinogen in gastric tissue and in plasma. Gastric juice pepsin was also studied.A significant increase of both pepsinogen and pepsin was found in animals treated with a dose of histamine (75 mg. per kg. of body weight). These results give further evidence that the zymogenic cells of gastric mucosa may be stimulated by histamine. The determination of pepsinogen in gastric tissue seems to permit a direct approach to the enzymatic function of zymogenic cells.

1957 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 729-732
Author(s):  
K. Kowalewski

The endocrine and exocrine activity of guinea pig stomach was measured by the determination of pepsinogen in gastric tissue and in plasma. Gastric juice pepsin was also studied.A significant increase of both pepsinogen and pepsin was found in animals treated with a dose of histamine (75 mg. per kg. of body weight). These results give further evidence that the zymogenic cells of gastric mucosa may be stimulated by histamine. The determination of pepsinogen in gastric tissue seems to permit a direct approach to the enzymatic function of zymogenic cells.


1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (8) ◽  
pp. 1131-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Thom ◽  
A. M. Perks

Lungs from fetal guinea pigs of 61 ± 3 days of gestation were supported in vitro for 3 h, and lung liquid secretion rates were measured by a dye dilution technique based on Blue Dextran 2000. Ten preparations that had received no treatment showed an average secretion rate of 1.12 ± 0.28 mL∙kg−1 body weight∙h−1 during the first hour, and there were no significant changes over the following 2 h. In studies of 54 fetal lungs, furosemide, bumetanide, control ethanol carrier, or saline alone were placed in the supporting medium during the middle hour of the 3-h incubations (ABA design). Furosemide at 10−3 M reduced secretion 83.4 ± 16.8%; at 10−4 and 10−5 M it produced smaller reductions. Bumetanide at 10−3 M usually produced reabsorption (129.9 ± 23.0% reduction), at 10−4 M it reduced secretion 30.9 ± 11.8%, but at 10−5 M it was ineffective. Control carrier and saline were without effect. The ability of the loop diuretics to produce reabsorption of fluid in some preparations suggests the unmasking of an active reabsorptive process. The results also suggest that lung liquid secretion in the fetal guinea pig, as in the sheep, is dependent on a Na+ and Cl− cotransport system.Key words: fetus, lung fluid, bumetanide, furosemide.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Murielle Lucrece Faïhun Abossede ◽  
Gbeliho Zoffoun Alex ◽  
fifame Grace Nadege Dedehou Vidjinnangni ◽  
Sylvie Hounzangbe-Adote Mahule

1957 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Moloney ◽  
L. Goldsmith

On the basis of body weight, mice showed a higher percentage survival to large doses of insulin than did rabbits and these in turn were more resistant to insulin than guinea pigs. Antibodies to insulin were induced in five species of animals. Anti-insulins produced by the guinea pig, rabbit, sheep, and horse can each neutralize insulin extracted from the pancreas of the rabbit, sheep, horse, pig, ox, and monkey (Macacus rhesus), but none of the four can neutralize insulin extracted from guinea-pig pancreas. Guinea-pig anti-insulin can neutralize endogenous mouse insulin; horse anti-insulin cannot. The problem of the relative effectiveness of insulin as an antigen is discussed.


1980 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Jenkins

1. Pregnant guinea-pigs receiving a low dose of L-ascorbic acid (0.2 mg/100 g body-weight per d) developed a hypercholesterolaemia in the third trimester of pregnancy, whereas no change in serum cholesterol levels was observed in pregnant animals receiving a higher dose of the vitamin (2 mg/100 g body-weight per d).2. Pregnancy in the group of guinea-pigs receiving the higher dose of L-ascorbic acid was associated with an increased biliary secretion of bile acids. No change was observed in the biliary secretion of bile acids in pregnant animals receiving the lower dose of L-ascorbic acid, but these animals secreted significantly more cholesterol.3. Changes in the biliary secretion of cholesterol and bile acids in the pregnant guinea-pig according to L-ascorbic acid intake were reflected in the composition of the gall-bladder bile. Thus, the gall-bladder bile of guinea-pigs receiving the lower dose of L-ascorbic acid contained more cholesterol, while the gall-bladder bile of those animals receiving the higher dose of the vitamin had a higher content of bile acids.4. The increased cholesterol content of the gall-bladder of pregnant guinea-pigs receiving the lower dose of L-ascorbic acid resulted in decreased bile acid:cholesterol and phospholipid: cholesterol values, conditions predisposing to cholelithiasis.


Author(s):  
Adriana CHENDE ◽  
Vasile RUS ◽  
Cristian MARTONOS ◽  
Dalma PIVARIU ◽  
Aurel DAMIAN ◽  
...  

Stomach fragments from 3 guinea pigs were collected from the three regions: cardiac, fundic and pyloric, for histochemical investigations. The anatomical segments were processed by the classical method of inclusion in paraffin and the histological sections were stained with PAS reaction for highlighting the neutral mucins and the Alcian blue method for acid mucins. All the surface cells of the gastric mucosa and in the crypts were positive on the PAS reaction and negative in the case of the alcian blue reaction. This demonstrates that cells on the surface and in the crypts synthetize neutral mucins. In the case of the cardiac region glands, only a small number of cells were positive on the two histochemical reactions, which shows that the cardiac glands in guinea pig synthesize a very small amount of neutral and acidic mucins. There are no positive cells in neither reaction used in the fundic glands case, which shows that these glands do not synthesize mucins, neither neutral nor acidic content. The glands located in the pyloric region have cells in the deep half of the wall which were positive on both histochemical reactions, which shows that they synthesize both neutral mucins and acidic mucins.


1936 ◽  
Vol 30 (9) ◽  
pp. 1719-1727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Hope Coward ◽  
Elsie Woodward Kassner
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2006 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 2240-2243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Serena ◽  
Félix Gilgado ◽  
Marçal Mariné ◽  
F. Javier Pastor ◽  
Josep Guarro

ABSTRACT We have evaluated the efficacy of voriconazole (VRC) in a systemic infection by Trichosporon asahii in immunosuppressed guinea pigs. VRC was more effective than amphotericin B in prolonging survival and reducing tissue burden. The best results were obtained with VRC at 10 mg/kg of body weight/day.


1971 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 479-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narendar N. Soni ◽  
Ken B. Messer

A surface planimeter was used to assess tetracycline-labeled regions of undecalcified sections of the palates of ten male guinea pigs. High to low values for labeled bone were found in the palatal alveolar process, the median palatine suture, and the basal bone, respectively. Also present were statistically significant age-associated differences.


1969 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omer Pelletier

To test the theory that D-isoascorbic acid (IAA) was not retained by the organs of animals, guinea pigs were fed a synthetic diet containing ascorbic acid (AA) plus IAA. The incorporation of IAA and AA was determined by making use of the different rates of osazone formation of oxidized AA and IAA with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine. It was found that the organs of the guinea pigs retained a significant quantity of IAA which replaced a corresponding quantity of AA. The incorporated IAA could, in turn, be replaced by AA when only AA was subsequently given in the diet.


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