Total vagotomy induces multiple alterations in the function of the endocrine pancreas. The
temporal evolution of selected behavioral and pancreatic alterations following …

Animal experiments and clinical observations have demonstrated significant effects of
vagotomy on body weight. Weight loss or inability to regain are partly due to impaired …

The gastric acid response to insulin hypoglycemia represents an effect of several stimulatory
and inhibitory mechanisms. In the intact stomach the direct vagal excitation of the acid …

In recent years there has been renewed interest in the role of the gastrointestinal tract and
the abdominal organs in regulating body energy balance. In an attempt to characterize vagal …

A new test for completeness of vagotomy to the pancreas was developed. It is based upon
the post-absorptive consequences of the absence of cephalic insulin secretion in …

Rats received one of four surgical manipulations of the abdominal vagus; either a total
vagotomy, a selective dorsal trunk vagotomy, a selective ventral trunk vagotomy or a sham …

Fifty-two patients underwent serial insulin tests in the 1st year after vagotomy. Although all
had given a negative insulin response by the Hollander criteria in the immediate …

To evaluate the effects of hepatic vagal denervation on the adaptation of glucose
metabolism to short-term starvation (ie,< 24 h), glucose metabolism was studied after 16 and …

Sham feeding is thought to stimulate gastric acid secretion solely via vagal pathways. We
evaluated whether sham feeding can be used as a test for vagotomy. From results in 50 …

Incomplete vagotomy is usually defined by a gastric acid response to insulin hypoglycaemia,
according to the pioneer studies in dogs by Hollander, who developed the insulin test in …