“…The blood flow in the gastroduodenal artery (just above the branch of the superior pancreaticoduodenal artery), measured by Doppler flow probe, is approximately 10 ml min-' in anaesthetized 8-10 kg piglets (S. G. Pierzynowski & P. Kiela, unpublished observation). The blood flow opposing the infusion reaching tlhe superior pancreaticoduodenal artery is likely to be even greater in conscious pigs since halothane anaesthesia reduces mesenteric blood flow and cardiac output in pigs by about 50% (Loick, Tokyay, Abdi, Traber, Nichols & Herndon, 1991) and, indeed, flows of some 30-60 ml min-' have been recorded in the left gastric artery in conscious, fasted dogs of (Naruse, Takagi, Kato & Ozaki, 1992). Therefore, our observations that the infusion of Evans Blue into anaesthetized pigs, via the same route and at the same rate (1 ml min-') as for peptide infusions in the conscious pig, stained the pylorus and proximal duodenum only, and not the pancreas, strongly suggests that the stimulatory effect of these two peptides arose from an action in the duodenum and was not due to the infusions reaching the pancreas.…”