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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 258: G59-G64, 1990;
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AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 258, Issue 1 59-G64, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Role of neuropeptide Y in opossum internal anal sphincter

S. Nurko and S. Rattan
Harvard Thorndike-Laboratory, Charles A. Dana Research Institute, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

The present investigation was undertaken to examine the effects and role of neuropeptide Y (NPY) on the internal anal sphincter (IAS). The studies were performed in alpha-chloralose-anesthetized opossums. Resting pressure in the IAS (IASP) was recorded using low-compliant continuously perfused catheters. The effect of NPY administered close intra-arterially on the resting IASP was examined before and after different neurohumoral antagonists and the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin (TTX). To examine the influence of sympathetic nerves, the ventral roots of lumbar sympathetic nerves were isolated in some experiments and stimulated electrically. The influence of NPY on the IAS relaxation in response to rectoanal reflex mimicked by rectal balloon distension (RD) was also examined. NPY caused dose-dependent rise in the IASP, which was not modified by different neurohumoral antagonists and TTX. The rise in IASP by electrical stimulation of ventral lumbar nerve root (L3) was suppressed but not abolished by phentolamine. However, guanethidine (which depletes both norepinephrine and NPY) caused complete obliteration of this response. The other effect of NPY on the IAS was significant antagonism of IAS relaxation caused by RD. From these results, we conclude that NPY exerts two different actions on the IAS. First, it causes a rise in IASP by its action directly at the IAS smooth muscle. Sympathetic nerve stimulation may cause a rise in IASP by its action directly at the IAS smooth muscle partially through release of NPY. Second, it inhibits IAS relaxation produced by rectoanal reflex. These findings would suggest an important regulatory role of NPY in rectoanal physiology.


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