Depression of exocrine pancreatic secretion by collection through duodenoscopic catheters.

Two dogs were equipped with gastric and duodenal cannulas permitting quantitative collection of pure pancreatic juice. Two series of experiments were performed: 1) collection through a short catheter, length 35 cm, volume 0.3 ml, and internal diameter 1.0 mm, and 2) collection through a long catheter used for duodenoscopic cannulation in man, length 110 cm, volume 1.7 ml, and internal diameter 1.0 mm at the tip and 1.4 mm in the other part of the catheter. After a basal period of 30 min the secretion was stimulated with secretin in the doses 0.1, 0.5, and 2.0 clinical units/kg/h, each dose being infused over a period of 30 min. With the long catheter the dose-response curve for fluid and bicarbonate was shifted to the right. The basal secretion of fluid was depressed 40%; with increasing secretory rates the depression was less pronounced. No significant depression of the bicarbonate concentration was seen. The protein secretion was insignificantly reduced.