Is vasoactive intestinal peptide an inhibitory transmitter in the circular but not the longitudinal muscle of guinea-pig colon?
- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology
- Vol. 36 (11) , 787-788
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2042-7158.1984.tb04877.x
Abstract
Circular muscle strips of guinea-pig isolated colon relaxed with vasoactive intestinal peptide or peptide histidine methionine, whereas the longitudinal muscle contracted. The non-adrenergic-non-cholinergic inhibitory nerves may therefore be different in these two muscle layers.Keywords
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