Effect of antrectomy on gastric secretion induced by insulin hypoglycemia in dogs]

Antrectomy was shown to cause a sharp and stable suppression of the secretory reaction of the fundal glands of the stomach in response to insulin hypoglycemia. Acid and pepsin secretion was reduced two-fold (on the average) as compared to that after histamine stimulation. A tendency to restoration of the secretory parameters was seen in 3 to 5 months; the next 7 months they persisted on a constant level.     

Decreased nutrient-stimulated insulin secretion in chronically hypoglycemic late-gestation fetal sheep is due to an intrinsic islet defect

We measured in vivo and in vitro nutrient-stimulated insulin secretion in late gestation fetal sheep to determine whether an intrinsic islet defect is responsible for decreased glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) in response to chronic hypoglycemia. Control fetuses responded to both leucine and lysine infusions with increased arterial plasma insulin concentrations (average increase: 0.13 +/- 0.05 ng/ml leucine; 0.99 +/- 0.26 ng/ml lysine). In vivo lysine-stimulated insulin secretion was decreased by chronic (0.37 +/- 0.18 ng/ml) and acute (0.27 +/- 0.19 ng/ml) hypoglycemia. Leucine did not stimulate insulin secretion following acute hypoglycemia but was preserved with chronic hypoglycemia (0.12 +/- 0.09 ng/ml). Isolated pancreatic islets from chronically hypoglycemic fetuses had normal insulin and DNA content but decreased fractional insulin release when stimulated with glucose, leucine, arginine, or lysine. Isolated islets from control fetuses responded to all nutrients. Therefore, chronic late gestation hypoglycemia causes defective in vitro nutrient-regulated insulin secretion that is at least partly responsible for diminished in vivo GSIS. Chronic hypoglycemia is a feature of human intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and might lead to an islet defect that is responsible for the decreased insulin secretion patterns seen in human IUGR fetuses and low-birth-weight human infants.     

Experimental neuroses in dogs caused by an increase in the intensity of (light) stimuli conditions

The influence of enhanced intensity of general illumination on conditioned reactions of a different degree of complexity was studied on dogs by the classical method of secretory conditioned reflexes. In most of the dogs, increase of general illumination from 30 to 300 luxes leads to more intensive secretory conditioned and unconditioned reactions, a smaller number of errors in differentiation, and stabilization of parameters of conditioned activity, which testifies to the improved general functional state of the brain. In two animals in the same conditions of the experiment, an experimental neurosis set it, not connected with the complexity of the elaborated activity. It is assumed that the neurotizing agent was the superfluous situational (photic) stimulation which presented excessive requirements to the mechanisms regulating the general functional state of the brain.