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The Modulatory Role of Gut Hormones in Elemental Diet and Intravenous Total Parenteral Nutrition-Induced Bacterial Translocation in Rats

Department of Surgery, Hadassah Hospital, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem

Dazhong Xu, MD

Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport

Qi Lu, MD

Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport

Edwin A. Deitch, MD

Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport

We have previously shown that parenteral and certain elemental diets promote bacterial translocation and that this diet-induced bacterial translocation can be prevented by the provision of bulk-forming dietary fiber. The goal of the current study was to test the hypothesis that fiber's protective effect on diet-induced bacterial translocation was mediated by trophic gut hormones. This hypothesis was tested by using bombesin (which stimulates gut hormone release) or the somatostatin analog Sandostatin (which inhibits gut hormone release) to modulate gut hormone release in rats receiving rat food, intravenous total parenteral nutrition, or an elemental diet. Both bombesin and fiber were effective in preventing elemental diet-induced bacterial translocation, whereas octreotide acetate abrogated the protective effect of fiber. Bombesin was also effective in limiting bacterial translocation in parenterally fed rats. Although both enteral (elemental diet) and parenteral diet-induced bacterial translocation were associated with cecal bacterial overgrowth, loss of small-bowel weight, and loss of mucosal protein content, none of these factors seemed to be primarily responsible for bacterial translocation. Because bombesin decreased the incidence of villous injury in the elemental diet-fed rats and decreased the incidence of villous injury and prevented loss of intestinal barrier function to horseradish peroxidase in the parenterally fed rats, it is possible that bombesin exerted its protective effect by limiting mucosal injury and preserving barrier function. (Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 18:159-166, 1994)

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Vol. 18, No. 2, 159-166 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/0148607194018002159


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