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N Vidon

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Increased cell loss in the human jejunum induced by laxatives (ricinoleic acid, dioctyl sodium sulphosuccinate, magnesium sulphate, bile salts).

Two conjugated bile salts (10 mmol/l sodium glycocholate, 10 mmol/l sodium taurodeoxycholate) and three laxatives (30 mmol/l magnesium sulphate, 10 mmol/l ricinoleic acid, 2 mmol/l dioctyl sodium sulphosuccinate) were tested on seven subjects with no intestinal lesions in 14 experiments by intestinal perfusion of the jejunum. A 25 cm segment was studied. Each solution was perfused at the rate of 10 ml/min. Water and electrolyte fluxes, losses of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and intestinal cell enzyme activity were measured in the fluids collected. All the laxatives and bile salts tested (except sodium glycocholate) induced water and electrolyte secretion, a rise in intraluminal DNA loss, and enzyme activity. It was possible to establish a significant correlation (p less than 0.001) between the amounts of water fluxes and DNA loss under the effect of dioctyl sodium sulphosuccinate and ricinoleic acid.

Bile Acids and Salts↗

[Cryptal origin of the intestinal secretion induced in rats by prostaglandin El. Evolution of secretion after a single injection of 5-fluorouracil].

The intestinal secretions induced by an intrajejunal perfusion of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) at the rate of 24 gamma/min in anaesthetized male Wistar rats, weighing 200-200 g, were studied during 6 days after a single injection of an antimitotic agent, the 5-fluorouracil (5-FU, 40 mg/kg). 5-FU induced changes in the structure of the intestinal mucosa. The modifications observed in the intestinal secretions of water and sodium induced by PGE1 suggest that these secretions might (a) originate from crypts; (b) be partly reabsorbed by villi. Concerning the endogenous secretions, the intestinal mucosa might act as a secretion-reabsorption system.

Alprostadil↗

Absorption of elemental and complex nutritional solutions during a continuous jejunal perfusion in man.

The jejunal absorption of either an elemental solution (amino acids, glucose and glucose oligosaccharides), or of nonelemental diet (chicken meat, egg-yolk power, soya flour, glucose, saccharose, maltose and dextrin maltose, corn and wheat oils) were compared in 25 healthy subjects by the technique of intestinal perfusion with a three-lumen tube. The test solutions were perfused just beyond the ligament of Treitz. The samples were collected 35, 70 and 105 cm below the infusion point. In a small segment of jejunum, the absorption increased the nutritional imbalance of the element diet 1 m below the infusion point, the flow rate in the lumen was similar for the two solutions and higher than the initial flow rate; the absorption, in terms of calories, is similar for the two solutions.

Adolescent↗

Hydroelectrolytic movements in rat jejunum during the alterations of the mucosa induced by a single injection of 5-fluorouracil.

Transmucosal movements of water and electrolytes were measured in male Wistar rats, using the intestinal perfusion technique after a single intramuscular injection of 40 mg/kg BW of 5-fluorouracil. These movements were studied, daily during 6 days after the injection, in relation to the histological study of mucosa. The results (1) may explain the diarrhoea observed in patients treated with this antimitotic agent; (2) suggest the existence of a secretion in crypts, followed by an incomplete reabsorption by villi; the secretion of crypts or the villus reabsorption are alternatively the driving factor depending on the reciprocal size of villi and crypts.

Animals↗

Fluid secretion in the duodenum and intestinal handling of water and electrolytes in Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.

The slow marker perfusion technique was used in five patients with the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome in order to determine the basal and postcibal flow rates of fluids passing the duodenojejunal junction and distal ileum, and the composition of those fluids. Fecal water and electrolyte excretions were also measured. The 24-hr outputs at the ligament of Treitz were markedly increased, while fecal losses were normal or only slightly increased. Thus, the overall intestinal reabsorption of water was 96%. Fasting rates of fluid and electrolyte flow at the ligament of Treitz were also measured during a basal period, followed by a period of continuous gastric aspiration. Removal of gastric secretion had the following effects on the fluid passing through the duodenum: (1) dramatic decrease in flow rate; (2) an increase in osmolality, from hypotonicity to isotonicity; (3) rise of pH, from acid to alkaline values; (4) a decrease of PCO2, from high to normal values. No increase in fasting plasma levels of immunoreactive secretin and motilin was observed in Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, whereas normal subjects respond to acid in the duodenum by a marked rise in the circulating levels of these hormones. These facts suggest that, in Zollinger-Ellison syndrome: (1) the ability of the small bowel and colon to reabsorb water and electrolytes is normal: (2) duodenal dissipation of hydrogen ions is mainly due to intraluminal neutralization by bicarbonate; and (3) stimulation of water and electrolyte secretion by the pancreas is inadequate.

Adult↗