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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-10-9
pubmed:abstractText
Small bowel resection stimulates intestinal adaptive growth by a neuroendocrine process thought to involve both sympathetic and parasympathetic innervation and enterotrophic hormones such as glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2). We investigated whether capsaicin-sensitive vagal afferent neurons are essential for maximal resection-induced intestinal growth. Rats received systemic or perivagal capsaicin or ganglionectomy before 70% midjejunoileal resection or transection and were fed orally or by total parenteral nutrition (TPN) for 7 days after surgery. Growth of residual bowel was assessed by changes in mucosal mass, protein, DNA, and histology. Both systemic and perivagal capsaicin significantly attenuated by 48-100% resection-induced increases in ileal mucosal mass, protein, and DNA in rats fed orally. Villus height was significantly reduced in resected rats given capsaicin compared with vehicle. Sucrase specific activity in jejunal mucosa was not significantly different; ileal mucosal sucrase specific activity was significantly increased by resection in capsaicin-treated rats. Capsaicin did not alter the 57% increase in ileal proglucagon mRNA or the 150% increase in plasma concentration of bioactive GLP-2 resulting from resection in orally fed rats. Ablation of spinal/splanchnic innervation by ganglionectomy failed to attenuate resection-induced adaptive growth. In TPN rats, capsaicin did not attenuate resection-induced mucosal growth. We conclude that vagal afferents are not essential for GLP-2 secretion when the ileum has direct contact with luminal nutrients after resection. In summary, vagal afferent neurons are essential for maximal resection-induced intestinal adaptation through a mechanism that appears to involve stimulation by luminal nutrients.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0363-6119
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
291
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
R1256-64
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-12-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Adaptation, Physiological, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Body Weight, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Capsaicin, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Enteral Nutrition, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Ganglionectomy, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Glucagon-Like Peptide 2, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Ileum, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Intestinal Mucosa, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Intestines, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Jejunum, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Male, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Neurons, Afferent, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Parenteral Nutrition, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Proglucagon, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Serine Endopeptidases, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Sucrase, pubmed-meshheading:17028287-Vagus Nerve
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Vagal afferents are essential for maximal resection-induced intestinal adaptive growth in orally fed rats.
pubmed:affiliation
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural