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We have studied the pancreatic secretory response to a normal meal in 5 subjects with an external drainage of the main pancreatic duct carried out after biliary tract surgery. Pancreatic juice was collected at 60-min intervals from 10 AM to 7 PM, starting 2 h before and ending 7 h after lunch, and was analyzed for volume, bicarbonate content, and protein content. Large doses of pancreatic extract were given between and during meals. Both bicarbonate and protein output increased rapidly after the beginning of the meal and the increase persisted, with minor fluctuations, for the entire 7-h study period between lunch and dinner. The peak postprandial bicarbonate and protein outputs were higher (on average by 20% and 26%, respectively) than bicarbonate and protein outputs induced by exogenous infusion of submaximal doses of secretin and cerulein. The profile and magnitude of the bicarbonate secretory pattern elicited by food were not substantially different from those of protein secretion. In an additional patient who had undergone a duodenocephalopancreatectomy plus two-thirds distal gastrectomy before the study, the pancreatic response to meals showed an initial phase characterized by an increase in pancreatic secretion during the first postprandial hour followed by a tendency to decrease in the subsequent 2 h, and a later phase (from the fourth postprandial hour to the end of the study) characterized by a more marked and more persistent increase in pancreatic secretion than occurred in the initial 3 h. These data indicate that (a) the pancreatic secretory response to ordinary meals is much more prolonged than is generally believed. The late phase of the response is not dependent on gastric emptying of food into the duodenum, but is probably related to the arrival of chyme in the distal ileum. (b) The pancreatic secretory response to a normal meal is quantitatively slightly higher than that produced by exogenous pancreatic stimulation with submaximal doses of secretin and cerulein. (c) The pattern of postprandial bicarbonate secretion is similar to that for protein.
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