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  • Title: [Mechanisms of serotonin effect on motility of ileocaecal zone in alert rabbits].
    Author: Ovsiannikov VI, Berezina TP.
    Journal: Ross Fiziol Zh Im I M Sechenova; 2005 Apr; 91(4):437-49. PubMed ID: 15969443.
    Abstract:
    I.V. administration of serotonin (2 mg kg(-1)) to alert rabbits changed the ileal, caecal, and colon motility including excitatory and inhibitory components. Initial rise of contractile activity was quickly replaced by its diminishing followed by a longer enhancement of the motility, and then by the final, inhibitory, phase. Under blockade of beta1- and beta2-adrenoreceptors with propranolol inhibition of ileal and caecal contractile activity with serotonin was preserved, the effect of circulating catecholamines on beta-adrenoreceptors of smooth muscle cells seems to be excluded as a cause of the serotonin inhibitory effect. In conditions of blockade of pre- and postsynaptic alpha-adrenoreceptors with phentolamine, there was no significant diminishing of the contractile activity in the ileo-caecal zone below the initial level induced by serotonin in control experiments. Intensification of the ileo-caecal zone contractile activity under the effect of serotonin persisted in conditions of blockade of muscarinic cholinoreceptors and was proceeding with participation of non-cholinergic excitatory mechanism.
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