This study was undertaken to investigate the effect of cingulate cortical ablation upon gastric secretion and its components in rats.
23 male rats were divided into the cingulate(N=9) and the operated control(N=14) groups. Cingulate cortex was ablated through a slit-shaped opening(1 mm in width, 5 mm in length> which was made symmetrically on both sides of, and parallel to, the sagittal suture by removing a bone flap from frontal bone on each side. In the operated control group, the surgical procedure was ended by the removal of the bone flap.
Under light ether anesthesia, experimental animals were placed in a restraining jacket of fine mesh wire and gastric juice was collected for 5 hours; via a canula which had been inserted through the anterior abdominal wall into the antral portion of the lumen of the stomach.
Volume of the gastric juice was measured, and total acid output and, free acid output were titrated with 0.04 N NaOH solution by using phenolphthalein and Topfer´s reagent as indicator, and chloride ion output was estimated by means of chloridometer.
Results obtained were that volume, total acid output, free acid output and chloride ion output of the gastric juice were higher significantly in the cingulate group than in the operated control. group.
It is inferred from the above results that the cingulate cortex exerts a fascilitatory influence upon gastric secretion and acid output in rats.
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