[On the mechanism of gastroduodenal motility inhibition under psychogenic stress in rabbits].

In experiments on unanaesthetized rabbits, myoelectric activity (contractile activity index) in antral and pyloric parts of the stomach and in two sites of proximal duodenum was studied under stress induced by fastening rabbit to a table in supine position. The stressor impact induced inhibition of contractile activity in antrum and pylorus. The duodenal contractile activity after initial complete suppression overshot its initial level. Blockade of beta1/beta2-adrenoceptor with propranolol and blockade of alpha2-adrenoceptor with yohimbine did not influence qualitatively the pattern of the stressor responses of antrum and pylorus, and of the postpyloric part of duodenum. In conditions of unselective blockade of alpha-adrenoceptor with dihydroergotoxin there was no initial complete inhibition of duodenal contractile activity, and its strengthening was more expressed than in the control experiments. The received data indicate that the stressor inhibition of antral and pyloric contractile activity possibly results from activation of non-adrenergic inhibitory neurons of the enteric nervous system. The initial short-term suppression of duodenal motility resulted from its "adrenergic" inhibition which can also be a factor limiting the manifestation of stimulating effect of the humoral agent on the duodenal motility. In the period after release of the animal, index of antral and pyloric contractile activity did not significantly differ from its initial level; after beta1/beta2-adrenoceptor blockade in antral and after alpha2-adrenoceptor blockade or nonselective alpha-blockade in antral and pyloric parts of the stomach, there was decrease of contractile activity compared with its initial level; after alpha2- or beta1/beta2-adrenoceptor blockade there was no poststressor exceeding of the initial level of the duodenal contractile activity, observed in the control experiments.