RESPONSE OF THE ISOLATED GALL BLADDER TO CHOLECYSTOKININ

31 January 1933

journal article
research article
Published by American Physiological Society in American Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content

Vol. 103 (2) , 275-278
https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplegacy.1933.103.2.275

Abstract

Cholecystokinin (from extracts of duodenal mucosa) caused contractions, not due to changes in pH, in the isolated gall bladder of guinea pigs. Gall bladders made incapable, by atropinization, of responding to pilocarpine or acetyl cholin still responded to cholecystokinin and histamine.