AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 252, Issue 5 667-G674, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Epithelial responses evoked by stimulation of submucosal neurons in guinea pig distal colon

A. Kuwahara, S. Bowen, J. Wang, C. Condon and H. J. Cooke

The influence of submucosal neurons on ion transport in the guinea pig distal colon was examined in muscle-stripped sheets of submucosa-mucosa set up in Ussing flux chambers. Spontaneous variations in potential differences (PD) and short-circuit current occurred ranging from positive currents associated with luminal negative PDs to negative currents with luminal positive PDs. Basal current in both groups was reduced by mucosal amiloride. In tissues with positive or negative short-circuit currents, unidirectional mucosal-to-serosal sodium fluxes were greater than serosal-to-mucosal fluxes and small net absorptive fluxes were present. Little or no chloride secretory flux was present. Electrical stimulation of submucosal neurons evoked a tetrodotoxin-sensitive increase in short-circuit current in tissues with positive or negative short-circuit currents. This was due to an increase in net chloride flux and little change in net sodium flux or residual flux. The increase in net chloride flux was due almost entirely to an increase in serosal-to-mucosal chloride flux and was associated with an increase in total tissue conductance. The stimulus-evoked response was reduced by atropine. These results suggest that stimulation of submucosal neurons that innervate the distal colonic epithelium evokes a large chloride secretory response that is due in part to release of acetylcholine at neuro-enterocyte junctions.

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