“…Studies in vivo have shown that prostaglandins stimulate non-parietal secretion from mammalian stomach (rat: Bolton, Palmer & Cohen, 1978; dog: cat: Gascoigne & Hirst, 1981), and that this secretion consists principally of Na+ and Clions with smaller amounts of K+ and HC03-(dog: Miller, Henagan, Watkins & Loy, 1983;cat: Smeaton & Hirst, 1984;rat: Bunce, 1985). Studies on non-parietal secretion in mammalian isolated tissues have shown that 16,16-dimethyl-prostaglandin E2 stimulates bicarbonate secretion in rabbit gastric mucosa (Rees, Gibbons & Turnberg, 1983), although no such secretion was observed in dog gastric mucosa (Kuo, Miller & Shanbour, 1983). In contrast, in the latter tissue, Chaudhury & Jacobson (1978) found that 16,16-dimethyl-prostaglandin E2, rather than stimulating secretion, increased the rate of net sodium absorption across the mucosa.…”