Acute Effects of Peptides on the Rat Colon
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Abstract
Stimulatory or inhibitory effects of a number of peptides were measured on the longitudinal strip of the rat-isolated colon. Substance P, neurotensin, bombesin, enkephalins, dynorphin, angiotensin, somatostatin, eledoisin and physalemin-induced contractions of the isolated colon or increased the spontaneous activity, while the vasoactive intestinal peptide caused the tissue to relax. Several other peptides (e.g. thyroliberin, oxytocin, glucagon, insulin) were inactive. Bradykinin was a weak stimulant through the activation of B<sub>2</sub> receptors. Development of B<sub>1</sub> receptors occurred on incubation in vitro and was prevented by cycloheximide. Prolonged incubation of the rat colon strip in vitro resulted in a progressive increase of spontaneous activity and a parallel sensitization of the tissue to the actions of stimulants (e.g. substance P, carbamylcholine, angiotensin II). Significant increase of the spontaneous activity was induced by propranolol, phentolamine or phenoxybenzamine; moreover, tissues taken from reserpinized animals showed intensive spontaneous activity from the beginning of the in vitro incubation. Antihistaminics, indomethacin and baclofen were inactive, while variable effects (rapidly reversible contractions, increase in spontaneous activity) were observed in some tissues with atropine and methysergide. Spontaneous activity and the sensitivity of the colon to peptides and nonpeptide stimulants were reduced in the presence of bradykinin (BK), des-Arg9-BK and high concentrations (>10–5M) of phenoxybenzamine, naloxone and verapamil. It is concluded that despite its high sensitivity to some peptides, and particularly to C-terminal fragment sequences of substance P, the rat-isolated colon appears to be a complex preparation for precise pharmacological studies on peptides because: (a) the sensitivity of the longitudinal colon strip to various stimulants increases progressively during in vitro incubation; (b) stimulants and inhibitors act not only on the smooth muscle fibers but also on the three functionally distinct sections of the intrinsic innervation, in such a way that every agent can have indirect effects, and (c) anti-adrenergic, antichoUnergic and other inhibitory drugs show intrinsic activity, therefore care must be taken when such agents are used in studies directed to demonstrate the specificity of receptors for peptides or other agonists in the rat colon.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".