Intestinal handling of bile acids is age dependent; adult, but not newborn, ileum absorbs bile acids, and adult, but not weanling or newborn, distal colon secretes Cl(-) in response to bile acids. Bile acid transport involving the apical Na(+)-dependent bile acid transporter (Asbt) and lipid-binding protein (LBP) is well characterized in the ileum, but little is known about colonic bile acid tr...

Intestinal motility was studied in two sheep by electronically recording pressure changes using open-ended p.v.c. tubes placed in the lumen of the intestine and connected to pressure transducers. Flow in the duodenum and ileum was studied concurrently with motility. Both duodenum and ileum showed two types of activity, one progressive and associated with a flow of digesta, and the other localiz...

D-Glucose transport was investigated in isolated brush-border membrane vesicles from human small intestine. Characteristics of D-glucose transport from the jejunum were compared with that in the mid and terminal ileum. Jejunal and mid-ileal D-glucose transport was Na+-dependent and electrogenic. The transient overshoot of jejunal D-glucose transport was significantly greater than corresponding ...

Dracocephalum kotschyi Boiss. is a traditional medicine with antispasmodic activities. The objective of this research was to study antispasmodic activities of hydroalcoholic extract of D. kotschyi on rat isolated uterus contractions for comparison with isolated ileum. Hydroalcoholic extract was obtained from aerial part of D. kotschyi using percolation method. A portion of rat ileum or uterus w...

retrograde approach is considered technically more challenging, with published failure rates for ileal intubation as high as 30% [1]. The technique for ileal intubation described by Yamamoto et al. involves visualizing the ileocecal valve (ICV) while the overtube balloon is inflated in the ascending colon, followed by pull-back of the balloon to reduce the ileocolic angle (thus exposing the ICV...

AIM To evaluate motoric intestinal disturbances during inflammation with Trichinella spiralis in rats as an experimental model. METHODS We examined the changes in worm-positive (jejunum) and worm-free (ileum) intestinal segments of rats infected with T. spiralis. To investigate the relationship between structural and functional changes in smooth muscle, we measured the thickness of the muscle...

BACKGROUND ATP-binding cassette transporter abcc2 is involved in the cellular efflux of irinotecan. The drug is toxic for mouse ileum, where abcc2 is highly expressed. Here, we investigate whether circadian changes in local abcc2 expression participate in the circadian rhythm of irinotecan toxicity for ileum mucosa, and further assess whether genetic background or sex modify this relation. ME...

We report on an exceptional vascular cause of gastrointestinal hemorrhage. A 30-yr-old man was admitted because of recurrent hematochezia. Colonoscopy showed circumferential, erythematous, and nodular vascular distensions with hematocystic spots in the terminal ileum resembling varicosis and subsequent computed tomography with 3-dimensional angiographic reconstruction revealed a vascular archit...

Measurements were made on protein sup,plcments in.a basal diet, of dry matter, nitrogen and amino acid digestibilities using mature and' adult cockerels. Birds were killed 5h after receiving their diet in a single feed. Analyses were made on digesta from (i) the ileum, (ii) the terminal ileum, (iii) post caeca, and on excreta. In a second exDeriment -adult cockerels were fitted with a sitiple c...