Abstract
In dogs beta-adrenoreceptor agonists inhibit gastric acid secretion stimulated by exogenous gastrin to a much greater extent than acid secretion stimulated by exogenous histamine. One possible explanation for this observation is that endogenous histamine is important in gastrin-mediated acid secretion and that isoprenaline and related beta-adrenoreceptor agonists block gastric mucosal histamine release. This possibility was tested in the present study in gastric lumen-perfused anaesthetized rats. Intravenous infusion of isoprenaline (12 microgram kg-1 h-1) inhibited maximal, pentagastrin-stimulated acid output by 50-70% (P less than 0.01), but had no significant inhibitory effect on the maximal acid secretory response to histamine. In contrast to its inhibitory effect on gastrin-stimulated acid output, isoproterenol had no effect on gastric histamine output during pentagastrin infusion. We conclude that isoprenaline selectively inhibits gastrin-stimulated acid secretion in the rat, as in the dog, and by a mechanism other than inhibiting gastric histamine release.
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