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  • Title: Capsaicin pretreatment attenuates multiple responses to cholecystokinin in rats.
    Author: McCann MJ, Verbalis JG, Stricker EM.
    Journal: J Auton Nerv Syst; 1988 Sep; 23(3):265-72. PubMed ID: 3192902.
    Abstract:
    Systemic injection of the peptide hormone cholecystokinin (CCK) is known to inhibit food intake and gastric emptying, and to stimulate neurohypophyseal secretion of oxytocin (OT) in rats. Previous studies also have shown that surgical destruction of afferent fibers in the gastric vagus eliminates the inhibitory effects of CCK on food intake. The present experiments used capsaicin to destroy peripheral sensory fibers in rats, and confirmed the failure of CCK to inhibit food intake. Similarly, capsaicin pretreatment markedly attenuated the stimulatory effect of CCK on OT secretion and the inhibitory effect of CCK on gastric emptying in rats. These and other results suggest that in rats CCK acts on receptors located on afferent fibers in the gastric vagus and stimulates inhibition of gastric emptying predominantly via a vagovagal reflex arc through the brainstem.
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