Abstract
Some factors known to affect jejunal motility (recorded as volume changes of an intraluminal balloon) were investigated in anaesthetized cats (ether-chloralose) pretreated with guanethidine and atropine. Indomethacin, morphine (both compounds administered systemically) or vagal nerve stimulation elicited jejunal excitatory motor responses. The effect of indomethacin seemed to be independent of cyclooxygenase inhibition and probably did not involve opioid receptors. It is suggested that the spasmogenic stimuli caused jejunal hypermotility by inhibiting tonically active, inhibitory motor neurons that are intrinsic to the gut. Furthermore, when the jenunal tone had been raised by indomethacin or morphine spontaneous relaxations were observed. and these could be mimicked by vagal stimulation. Hexamethonium antagonized these relaxation but did not attenuate the drug-induced jejunal hypermotility.
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