BACKGROUND: Morbid obesity is a chronic disease associated to severe medical complications, causing adverse effects on longevity as well as physical, emotional, social and economical consequences. Both clinical and experimental research have been addressing the surgical treatment. Gastroplasties and gastric bypasses have been developed, resulting in a relatively large gastric pouch where, in some techniques, is totally excluded from gastrointestinal transit. The possible alterations of that segment, transformed into an appendix of the digestory system, represents an interesting research area. Our aim was to evaluate the weight and the alterations of seric gastrin in rats after abdominal truncal vagotomy with exclusion of gastric pouch and duodenum. METHODS: Thirty male adult Wistar rats (Rattus Norvegicus Albinus), out of one hundred, submitted to total gastric exclusion, with an average weight of 378.67 g, could be used in our research. The study was complemented by the measurement of seric gastrin using radioimmunoassay I125 double antibody gastrin. RESULTS: The weight of all studied rats decreased in average 92,83g (from 378,67g to 285,83g) which stands for a reduction of 24,52%. There were significant differences between the initial and final weights (p<0,001). Serum gastrin has also decreased in 21 out of the 30 operated rats from 59,68pg/ml to 46,77 pg/ml, corresponding to a decrease of 12,91pg (19,73%) between the two means (p<0,001). Statistical analysis was supposed to evaluate whether there was any decrease in the means of the following variables: weight and gastrin, measured before and after the surgical procedure. The T-Student statistical test was applied to evaluate such differences. CONCLUSIONS: There was a significant decrease of weight and serum gastrin after total gastric exclusion.
Gastroplasty; Gastrins; Gastric bypass; Vagotomy, truncal; Models, animals
