“…Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), a hormone that is chemically related to glucagon and secretin (Said & Mutt, 1972), increases gut secretion (Barbezat & Grossman, 1971) and has been implicated as the diarrhoeal agent in certain disease states (Bloom, Polak & Pearse, 1973; Seif, Sadowski, Heni, Fischer, Bloom, & Polak, 1975). Glucagon has previously been shown to decrease absorption by the canine gut, at least partly.…”