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- Title
Effect of the Central Nervous System on Mucosal Growth and Apoptosis in the Small Intestine.
- Authors
Fujimoto, Kazuma; Iwakiri, Ryuichi; Utsumi, Hiroyoshi; Kojima, Masataka; Ishibashi, Sadatoshi; Wu, Bin; Sakata, Hiroyuki; Noda, Takahiro
- Abstract
Recently our studies have demonstrated that the central nervous system regulates in part mucosal cell growth and apoptosis in the rat small intestine. Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity is a key enzyme for polyamine synthesis which plays an important role for the intestinal mucosal growth. We have demonstrated that the increase of ODC activity in the duodenum just before the dark period is abolished by truncal vagotomy and that the infusion of 2-deoxy-D-glucose into the third cerebroventricle activates ODC activity in the small intestine. Epithelial homeostasis is balanced by regulation of cell proliferation and cell death. Our preliminary data showed that intestinal mucosal apoptosis decreased in the ventromedial-hypothalamus-lesioned rat. These results indicate that the central nervous system, in addition to local factors, is related to regulation of mucosal homeostasis in the intestinal mucosa.Copyright © 2001 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Subjects
CENTRAL nervous system; SMALL intestine; INTESTINAL mucosa; APOPTOSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS
- Publication
Digestion, 2001, Vol 63, p108
- ISSN
0012-2823
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000051921