[Function of the gastro-epiploic nerve in the rabbit]

Abstract

Four rabbits have been given 0,2 U/Kg insulin intravenous injection, thus inducing a vagal stimulation. Having been sponged a Congo Red solution onto the mucosa, via a gastrotomy incision, we could see an acid secretion by the colour change when the right gastroepiploic vessels were cut together with the nerves along side them, the colour change appeared in a large area of gastric fundus and corpus, but not in a small area near the greater curvature. These experiments let us consider the nervous filaments along side the right gastroepiploic vessels in the rabbit as secretory fibers of probable vagal nature.