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Neuropeptides and disuse of the rat parotid gland
Author(s) -
Mansson B,
Ekman R,
Hakanson R,
Ekstrom J
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
experimental physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1469-445X
pISSN - 0958-0670
DOI - 10.1113/expphysiol.1990.sp003435
Subject(s) - vasoactive intestinal peptide , neuropeptide , endocrinology , medicine , substance p , parotid gland , reflex , calcitonin , calcitonin gene related peptide , biology , pathology , receptor
Rats were fed a liquid diet with the aim of decreasing nervous reflex activity in the parotid glands. In rats killed after 21 days on this diet the glands were atrophied and the total amounts of the neuropeptides, substance P, vasoactive intestinal peptide and calcitonin gene‐related peptide, were lower than in control glands.