[Effect of the nitrogen components of a peptide diet and the analogous amino acids on pancreatic secretion in the human].

In healthy volunteers (n = 10), the exocrine pancreatic secretion was studied after intragastric administration of a peptid solution which corresponded to the nitrogen component of a commercially available peptid diet, and of a solution of the analogous amino acids. Both test solutions were emptied out of the stomach in the same time interval and evoked a comparably high pancreatic secretion of volume, amylase, lipase, trypsin and chymotrypsin. These findings are discussed in regard to recommendations to apply elemental diets for treatment of complicated pancreatitis.