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SUBMITTER: Kawamura T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6479874 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kawamura Tomoe T Matsuura Bunzo B Miyake Teruki T Abe Masanori M Ikeda Yoshiou Y Hiasa Yoichi Y
International journal of molecular sciences 20190327 7
Gastrointestinal motility is regulated by neural factors and humoral factors. Both motilin and ghrelin improve gastrointestinal motility, but many issues remain unclear. We prepared human <i>motilin receptor</i> transgenic (Tg) mice and performed experiments evaluating the effects of motilin, erythromycin (EM), and ghrelin. EM and ghrelin promoted gastric emptying (GE) when administered either peripherally or centrally to Tg mice. Atropine (a muscarinic receptor antagonist) counteracted GE induc ...[more]