Abstract
The effects of intramuscular administration of multiple doses of cimetidine and ranitidine on basal gastric pH, free and total acid content from young adult pigs were studied. Cimetidine (4·5 mg kg −1, four times a day, intramuscularly, for three days) significantly (P < 0·05) raised the basal gastric pH above 3·5 with a simultaneous reduction in free acid content at two, three and 26 hours after the administration of the eighth dose. Ranitidine (0·75 mg kg −1, four times a day, intramuscularly, for three days) significantly (P<0·05) raised the basal gastric pH above 3·5 with a concomitant reduction in free acid content at three and 38 hours after the administration of the eighth dose. Neither cimetidine nor ranitidine had any significant effects on total acid content. These results confirm that the pig is a basal acid secretor and that the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of cimetidine and ranitidine in pigs might be different from those in humans.
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