[Effect of ligation of the pancreatic ducts on endogenous serotonin distribution in the organs of the gastrointestinal tract].

The content of endogenous serotonin in the mucosa of various parts of the stomach and the small intestine and also in the homogenates of the pancreatic tissue and the peripheral blood was traced in the course of 12 months after the ligation of the pancreatic ducts in dogs. Marked and prolonged disturbances were revealed in the deposition of the endogenous serotonin characterized by definite regularities in all the tissues under study, connected with the changes of the relative constancy of the enteral medium due to the absence of pancreatic secretion in the lumen of the digestive tube.