Journal article
Antigen-induced contraction of jejunal smooth muscle in the sensitized rat
Abstract
We examined contractility of longitudinal muscle strips of jejunum from control rats and rats infected 34-85 days previously with Trichinella spiralis. Antigen prepared from T. spiralis larvae contracted muscle from previously infected but not control rats. Contraction was specific for the sensitizing agent because antigen from Nippostrongylus brasiliensis did not induce contraction. Contraction was resistant to atropine or tetrodotoxin but was …
Authors
Vermillion DL; Ernst PB; Scicchitano R; Collins SM
Journal
American Journal of Physiology, Vol. 255, No. 6, pp. g701–g708
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Publication Date
December 1, 1988
DOI
10.1152/ajpgi.1988.255.6.g701
ISSN
0002-9513