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Peripheral mechanisms of intestinal dysmotility in the morphine tolerant and dependent rats

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Banach T., Zurowski D., Gil K., Weisbrodt N. W., Rosenfeld G., Thor P. J.

Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

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2006

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tom 57

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Changes of intestinal motility and transit produced by tolerance to and dependence upon morphine have been partly attributed to peripheral mechanisms. We evaluated the effect of chronic peripheral morphine administration and peripheral µ-receptor blockade on vagal afferent activity (VAA) and c-Kit positive intramuscular cells of Cajal (ICCs). Ten rats were subjected to chronic subcutaneous morphine infusion for 72 h with subsequent VAA recording. Potential frequency was evaluated within recordings before and after µ receptor blockade by D-Phe -Cys -Tyr -D-Trp -Orn -Thr -Phe -Thr (CTOP) i.p. injections. Afterwards the rats were sacrificed and intramuscular c-Kit antigen expression was assessed by image analysis within removed fragments of duodenum and ascending colon. An equal group of rats served as a control for VAA and c-Kit expression. Analysis of VAA revealed similar frequencies of potentials in morphine tolerant / dependent rats before CTOP and in the controls. CTOP increased potential frequency in the morphine group which effect was visible mostly within the first 20 minutes (p=0.01). The morphine infused animals presented also higher c-Kit expression in both the duodenum (p<0.001) and the ascending colon (p<0.001) in comparison to the control group. Results of our study may indicate the involment of both the intestinal wall and the long vago-vagal reflexes in tolerance to and dependence upon opioids.

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Central and peripheral mechanisms by which ghrelin regulates gut motility

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Peeters T. L.

Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. Supplement

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2003

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tom 54

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nr 4

95-103

Ghrelin is the recently discovered endogenous ligand for the growth hormone secretagogue receptor. This receptor had previously been characterized based on the stimulatory effect of synthetic peptides, enkephalin analogues, on growth hormone secretion by pituitary somatotrophs. Surprisingly, ghrelin is most abundant in the stomach, suggesting that it may have effects beyond the stimulation of growth hormone in the pituitary and that it is a new brain-gut peptide. There is now increasing evidence that ghrelin stimulates motor activity in the gastrointestinal tract. Thus ghrelin induces the migrating motor complex and accelerates gastric emptying. These are effects typical for motilin, the only peptide structurally related to ghrelin. Moreover, the receptors of both peptides are structurally related as well. The motor effects of ghrelin require rather high concentrations, while motilin at high concentrations stimulates growth hormone release. These data suggest cross-reactivity. However, in vitro binding and contractility studies in the rabbit, the classical model to study motilin agonists, show that ghrelin has very weak if any interaction with the motilin receptor. Similarly, in cell lines expressing the receptors for both peptides there is no evidence for cross-reactivity. This corresponds to the fact that the pharmacophore of both peptides is quite different. Therefore, the motor effects must be due to the stimulation of specific central or peripheral ghrelin receptors. In the guinea pig there is evidence from electrophysiology, immunohistochemistry and calcium imaging studies for ghrelin receptors on myenteric neurons. This provides the morphological basis for peripheral effects of ghrelin. In rats, ghrelin, but not motilin, enhances the response of muscle strips to electrical field stimulation by activating cholinergic pathways. In rabbits the opposite is true but some synthetic ghrelin agonists have weak effects which cannot be blocked by motilin antagonists. Apparently ghrelin is the functional equivalent of motilin in the rat, but in rabbits the motilin-ghrelin family may have yet unknown members. in vivo the effect of ghrelin can be blocked by vagotomy and there is evidence for ghrelin receptors on vagal afferents and in the nodose ganglion. Studies in the rat suggest that under physiological conditions circulating ghrelin does not activate the myenteric plexus, but is able to do so following vagotomy. Finally, centrally administered ghrelin also accelerates gastric emptying and ghrelin changes the activity of neurons of the central nuclei involved in signalling information from the gastrointestinal tract. It is concluded that ghrelin may affect gastrointestinal motility via specific ghrelin receptors located on myenteric, vagal and central neurons. Vagal and central pathways appear to be most important. The fact that ghrelin may reverse the effect of ileus on gastric emptying suggests that ghrelin agonists could find therapeutical application as prokinetics.

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Peripheral mechanisms of intestinal dysmotility in rats with salsolinol induced experimental Parkinson's disease

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Banach T., Zurowski D., Gil K., Krygowska-Wajs A., Marszalek A., Thor P. J.

Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

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2006

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tom 57

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nr 2

Gastrointestinal dysmotility in Parkinson's disease (PD) has been attributed in part to peripheral neurotoxine action. Our purpose was the evaluation of the salsolinol effect on intramuscular interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC), duodenal myoelectrical activity (DMA) and vagal afferent activity (VAA) in rats with experimental PD. Twenty rats were divided into 2 equal groups. Experimental PD was produced in one group by 3 weeks of the intraperitoneal salsolinol injections (50 mg/kg/day), whereas the 2-nd group served as control. DMA and VAA were recorded in both groups during fasting and stepwise - gastric distension (GD) of 10 ml. Subsequently fragments of duodenum were removed and intramuscular ICC were assessed as c-Kit antigen percentage in the duodenal muscular zone. Analyses of the fasting DMA and VAA recordings didn't reveal differences between the compared groups. During GD increase of DMA dominant frequency (p=0.04) and VAA frequency (p<0.01) was observed in the controls whereas in the salsolinol group both parameters remained unchanged. Image analysis of duodenum revealed decreased c-Kit expression in the salsolinol-injected animals (p=0.05). The results of our study may suggest the direct effect of salsolinol on both ICC and neuronal pathways of gastro-duodenal reflexes.

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Surveillance of the gastrointestinal mucosa by sensory neurons

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Holzer P., Michl T., Danzer M., Jocic M., Schicho R., Lippe I. T.

Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

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2001

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tom 52

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nr 4,1

A dense network of extrinsic and intrinsic sensory neurons supplies the gastrointestinal tract. Intrinsic sensory neurons provide the enteric nervous system with the kind of information that this brain of the gut requires for its autonomic control of digestion, whereas extrinsic afferents notify the brain about processes that are relevant to energy and fluid homeostasis and the sensation of discomfort and pain. The sensory repertoire of afferent neurons is extended by their responsiveness to mediators released from enteroendocrine and immune cells, which act like “taste buds” of the gut and serve as interface between the gastrointestinal lumen and the sensory nerve terminals in the lamina propria of the mucosa. Functional bowel disorders such as non-ulcer dyspepsia and irritable bowel syndrome are characterized by abdominal discomfort or pain in the absence of an identifiable organic cause. It is hypothesized with good reason that infection, inflammation or trauma causes sensory pathways to undergo profound phenotypic and functional alterations that outlast the acute insult. The pertinent changes involve an exaggerated sensitivity of the peripheral afferent nerve fibres as well as a distorted processing and representation of the incoming information in the brain. This concept identifies a number of receptors and ion channels that are selectively expressed by primary afferent neurons as important molecular targets at which to aim novel therapies for functional bowel disorders.

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3 Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

1 Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. Supplement

2 Banach T.

2 Gil K.

2 Thor P. J.

2 Zurowski D.

1 Danzer M.

1 Holzer P.

1 Jocic M.

1 Krygowska-Wajs A.

1 Lippe I. T.

1 Marszalek A.

1 Michl T.

1 Peeters T. L.

1 Rosenfeld G.

1 Schicho R.

1 Weisbrodt N. W.

2 2006

1 2003

1 2001

Peripheral mechanisms of intestinal dysmotility in the morphine tolerant and dependent rats

Central and peripheral mechanisms by which ghrelin regulates gut motility

Peripheral mechanisms of intestinal dysmotility in rats with salsolinol induced experimental Parkinson's disease

Surveillance of the gastrointestinal mucosa by sensory neurons