Chemoneurolysis of the canine gastric submucosa. Effects on surgically-induced gastric hypersecretion on the Heidenhain pouch
Schapiro, H.; Jackson, N.J.; Rosato, F.E.; Chaudhuri, T.K.; Gayle, R.G.
American Surgeon 44(12): 789-793
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-1348 PMID: 736382 Document Number: 125263
Double denervated gastric pouches were constructed in dogs. One gastric pouch served as a control, and the other gastric pouch had its submucosa infiltrated with 25% ethyl alcohol, (submucosal chemoneurolysis). Neurolysis of these gastric pouches eliminated their gastric secretory responses to histamine, meat and pentagastrin without altering their histological appearance. Transplantation of 75% of the gastric antrum into the colon caused a hypergastrinemia and increased the sensitivity of the control gastric pouches to the various stimuli but had no such effect on those gastric pouches infiltrated with ethyl alcohol.