Summary: Intraduodenal (i.d.) application of bile or Nataurodeoxycholate (TDC) dose dependently enhances basal exocrine pancreatic secretion. The hydrokinetic effect is mediated at least in part by secretin. This study should show, whether vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), a partial agonist of secretin, may also be involved in the mediation of the hydrokinetic effect. Furthermore, plasma concentrations of somatostatin-like immunoreactivity (SLI) were measured in order to check whether this counterregulating hormone is also released by bile and TDC. Twenty investigations were carried out on 10 fasting healthy volunteers provided with a double-lumen Dreiling tube. Bile and TDC were intraduodenally applied in doses of 2-6 g and 200-600 mg, respectively, at 65-min intervals. Plasma samples were withdrawn at defined intervals for radioimmunological determination of VIP and SLI. Duodenal juice was collected in 10-min fractions and analyzed for volume, pH, bicarbonate, lipase, trypsin, and amylase. 1.d. application of bile or TDC dose dependently stimulated hydrokinetic and ecbolic pancreatic secretion. Bile exerted a slightly stronger effect than TDC. Pancreatic response was simultaneously accompanied by a significant increase of plasma VIP and SLI concentrations. The effect of bile on integrated plasma VIP and SLI concentrations seems to be dose dependent; the effect of TDC on integrated SLI, too. For the increase of integrated plasma VIP concentrations after TDC no doseresponse relation could be established. We conclude that VIP may be a further mediator of bile-induced volume and bicarbonate secretion. The release of plasma SLI indicates that inhibitory mechanisms concomitantly are triggered by i.d. bile and TDC, as already shown during digestion for the intestinal phase of pancreatic secretion. Key Words: Bile-Duodenum-Pancreatic secretionSomatostatin-Taurodeoxycholate-Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide.Intraduodenal (i.d.) application of bile or Nataurodeoxycholate (TDC) dose dependently enhances basal (1) and secretin-stimulated (2) hydrokinetic and ecbolic pancreatic secretion in man. The pancreatic response to i. d. bile (1,3,4) or bile salts (1,5,6) is accompanied by a release of secretin, the most important hormonal mediator of pancreatic volume and bicarbonate secretion (7-9).Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) acts as a were not able to demonstrate a release of VIP in both portal and peripheral plasma after i.d. bile (3 g) in dogs. Therefore, one purpose of the present study was to investigate in man, whether VIP is dose dependently released by physiological loads of bile or TDC, a very effective bile salt with regard to pancreatic secretion (2).The intestinal phase of pancreatic secretion represents a net sum resulting from the responses to stimulatory and inhibitory mechanisms, as well (13). As we previously showed in man (l), i.d. ap-
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