In healthy volunteers, the maximal VIP-evoked pancreatic juice flow was lower than the maximal secretin-stimulated flow.
In plain wordsIn healthy volunteers, VIP caused much less pancreatic juice flow than secretin.
- Outcome
- DecreaseMaximal pancreatic juice flow
- Study
n = 5
- Comparator
- Secretin
- Outcome group
- Gastrointestinal protection · Gastrointestinal
- Studied dose
- 0.8 to 3.2 microgram per kg per hr · intravenousAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Maximal juice flow
- 48 microliter per kg per 5 min
- VIP
- Maximal juice flow
- 248 microliter per kg per 5 min
- secretin
Source sentences
The mean +/- SEM observed maximal response of secretin-stimulated juice flow was 248 +/- 7 microliter per kg per 5 min, whereas the observed maximal response for VIP-evoked juice flow was 48 +/- 6 microliter per kg per 5 min.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
The responses of pancreatic volume flow and bicarbonate output to intravenous vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP, 0.8 to 3.2 microgram per kg per hr) and synthetic secretin (32.2 to 129 ng per kg per hr) were compared intraindividually in 5 healthy volunteers.