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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 279: G380-G387, 2000;
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Vol. 279, Issue 2, G380-G387, August 2000

Myenteric neurons activate submucosal vasodilator neurons in guinea pig ileum

S. Vanner

Gastrointestinal Diseases Research Unit, Departments of Biology, Medicine, and Physiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 5G2

This study examined whether myenteric neurons activate submucosal vasodilator pathways in in vitro combined submucosal-myenteric plexus preparations from guinea pig ileum. Exposed myenteric ganglia were electrically stimulated, and changes in the outside diameter of submucosal arterioles were monitored in adjoining tissue by videomicroscopy. Stimulation up to 18 mm from the recording site evoked large TTX-sensitive vasodilations in both orad and aborad directions. In double-chamber baths, which isolated the stimulating myenteric chamber from the recording submucosal chamber, hexamethonium or the muscarinic antagonist 4-diphenylacetoxy-N-(2-chloroethyl)-piperdine hydrochloride (4-DAMP) almost completely blocked dilations when superfused in the submucosal chamber. When hexamethonium was placed in the myenteric chamber ~50% of responses were hexamethonium sensitive in both orad and aborad orientations. The addition of 4-DAMP or substitution of Ca2+-free, 12 mM Mg2+ solution did not cause further inhibition. These results demonstrate that polysynaptic pathways in the myenteric plexus projecting orad and aborad can activate submucosal vasodilator neurons. These pathways could coordinate intestinal blood flow and motility.

vasodilator reflexes; intestinal blood flow; enteric reflexes; submucosal arterioles


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