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Neuropeptide Y is distributed abundantly not only in the brain, but also in the gastrointestinal tract and suppresses intestinal muscle contraction in isolated muscle preparations. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether centrally administered neuropeptide Y modulated gastric emptying and intestinal transit in conscious rats. Graded doses of neuropeptide Y were administered intracisternally 1 min before ingestion of test meals through an oral tube. Four hours after ingestion of 60 Amberlite pellets, the rats were sacrificed and residual pellets in the stomach and the small intestine segments were counted to calculate the solid meal transit rate. The liquid meal transit rate was calculated 1 hr after 0.07% phenol red ingestion by determining the residual phenol red in the stomach and the small intestine segments. Neuropeptide Y elicited potent suppression of gastric emptying and intestinal transit of both solid and liquid meals. Pretreatment with propranolol antagonized, whereas phentolamine did not affect, the suppressive effect of central neuropeptide Y. Although carbachol blocked the effects of neuropeptide Y, neither atropine nor hexamethonium altered the actions of neuropeptide Y. In conclusions, centrally administered neuropeptide Y strongly inhibited gastrointestinal transit by stimulating a beta-adrenergic pathway.
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Matsuda, M., Aono, M., Moriga, M. et al. Centrally administered neuropeptide Y (NPY) inhibits gastric emptying and intestinal transit in the rat. Digest Dis Sci 38, 845–850 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01295910
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