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 …

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 …

An intraoperative test for the completeness of vagotomy has been proposed and evaluated
in dogs. It combines the well established vagal stimulatory agent, 2-DG, with a reliable …

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

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 and rabbits were subjected to bilateral subdiaphragmatic vagotomy or laparotomy
(sham vagotomy) and maintained on a diet of solid food. Measurement of stomach size was …

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 …

Physiologic studies were done in dogs with stimulation of the thoracic vagus and recording
of motility changes in the abdominal viscera, namely the stomach, first part of the duodenum …

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 …

The effect of several procedures for the denervation of visceral structures on the regulation
of food intake was investigated in the rabbit. The duration of the postoperative recovery of …