Abstract
The effects of a single challenge with 60,000 infective Ostertagia ostertagi larvae on blood and gastrointestinal mucosal gastrin concentrations, gastrin-producing G-cell numbers in the pyloric mucosa and growth of different parts of the gut were investigated in 16, two-and-a-half-month-old calves. Infected calves exhibited a rise in abomasal pH which was accompanied by a 145 per cent increase in wet weight of the fundic mucosa (P<0·05) and a significant rise in blood total gastrin concentrations (P<0·01). Circulating little gastrin (G-17) was unaffected. Pyloric mucosal total gastrin concentrations remained unaltered in the infected calves until day 28 when levels fell to 36·9 per cent of control group values (P<0·01). Pyloric mucosal G-cell numbers declined during the experiment in the infected group. It is suggested that release of previously stored tissue gastrin and not a change in Gcell numbers contributes to the hypergastrinaemia associated with ostertagia infection in the calf.
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